Clarion 1980-05-16 Vol 55 No 25

Dudley Lutton, Bethel's new head football mentor, sees foot-ball
as a "unifying force."
the Clarion. Vol. 55, No. 25 Bethel College St. Paul, MN May 16, 1980
Hatfield to address graduates
"And what does the Lord re-quire
of you? To act justly and to
love mercy and to walk humble
with your God." (Micah 6:8).
The above Scripture verse is the
theme for this year's commence-ment,
Sunday, May 25. Senator
Mark Hatfield from Oregon will
be addressing the 360 (Bachelor of
Arts and Associate of Arts) grad-uates
at commencement, while
Rev. Daniel Baumann, pastor of
the Whittier Area Baptist Fellow-ship
will speak at baccalaureate.
Senior Carolyn Olson has de-signed
a backdrop and cover for
the commencement program. The
Male Chorus will sing at baccal-aureate
and Dr. Paul Finlay, re-gistrar,
will give the benediction at
baccalaureate. Finlay will end his
22 years at Bethel next October.
Longer bank,
LRC hours
top survey
by Jan Johnson
"The Twin City Reader," li-brary
hours, shuttle services, and
admissions requirements were just
a few of the questions tackled by
the Student Senate in a recent stu-dent
survey.
About 600 students responded
by the questionnaire that the Sen-ate
put in P.O.'s to get student
reaction.
According to the results, most
people seemed concerned with
longer hours for both the banking
window and the library. Of the
600, 410 indicated the need for
longer banking hours on Friday,
and 392 indicated a need for long-er
library hours. Out of those,
over half said they would like to
see the library open later on Fri-days
and Saturdays.
The Senate included a question
asking what issues the students
would like to be confronted by the
Senate this year. The response was
over whelming. Four pages of dif-ferent
items to be considered.
Some of the main ones were the
lack of housing, the increase in
population, and the vagueness of
graduation requirements.
Of all the things covered in the
survey, the Senate is working on
several. Caryl Brown, the new stu-dent
body vice-president, said that
there are plans in the works for an
on campus food co-op next fall.
But as far as this year is con-cerned,
they are working on get-ting
longer library and banking
hours for finals week.
Brown also added that she
would like to thank the students
for participating.
Dr. Phil Sackett, associate pro-fessor
in chemistry and Dr. John
Lawyer, associate professor in po-litical
science will give the invoca-tion
and benediction at
commencement, respectively. Spe-cial
music will be by seniors Brian
Mulder and Carmen Holtzworth,
and Ann Eklof and Dawn Rum-sey.
Seniors who will be speaking at
baccalaureate and commencement
include Bobbie Dischinger, Ronn
Kreps, Cory Dahl and Tannie
Woods. Janet Peterson will read
Scripture, and Dan Carlson and
Steve Fischer will introduce speak-ers.
Joel Johnson will lead the
class in a responsive reading at the
end of the commencement cere-mony.
Plus-minus
by Susan Peterson
If you've ever "missed an A by
three points," or "barely made a
C," we've got some good news
and some bad news. First the good
news; next year, that missed A will
become an A- instead of a B on
by Steve Erickson
When Dud Lutton took over
the Rocky Mountain College foot-ball
team four years ago as the
youngest head coach in the coun-try,
the school was on the verge of
dropping the program. The team
had lost most of its games, playing
Those who have been involved
in planning the commencement
activities include Dr. Dwight Jess-up,
director of academic affairs,
Curt Fauth, alumni director in
public relations, and seniors Cory
Dahl, Steve Fischer, Steve Hos-well,
Greg Kaihoi, Debbi Olson,
Suzi Wells and Tannie Woods.
Juan Ramos is the director of the
Saturday night alumni program,
which follows the alumni dinner
to begin at 6 p.m. in the gymna-sium.
up as a C-.
Next fall, teachers will have the
option of tacking pluses onto B's,
C's and D's and minuses onto
A's, B's, and C's. A plus would
increase the number of grade
points by .3, and a minus would
decrease it by the same margin.
against schools who handed out
far more financial aid that it ever
could. But more than that, it was
a program that no one really cared
about.
Lutton, Bethel's new football
coach if his appointment is con-firmed
by the Board of Trustees,
its implementation is possible now
only because of Bethel's new data
processing system.
Jessup said he knew of no sig-nificant
opposition to the change
on the part of students, however.
on Dec. 4, 1979, the senate voted
by a narrow margin to oppose the
change and urge Jessup and the
members of the Academic Policy
stepped in and made football a big
part of Rocky Mountain. Al-though
the team never became a
big winner, Lutton defines success
in other ways, too.
"Too many coaches just look at
the scoreboard. They forget the
powerful influence the program
can have on people's lives. Foot-ball
should be a positive, unifying
force on the campus. Our primary
goal as a school to glorify God —
in football too," said Lutton.
The 28-year-old Lutton, in
town this week to get the program
here off the ground, was offered
the job the middle of last week.
Although scheduled to make his
decision by last Friday, Lutton
agonized over the weekend before
telling George Henry "yes" Mon-day.
"The thing that attracted me to
Bethel was the opportunity to be
involved at a Christ-centered
school. It is important that young
people have the opportunity to be
in a program where that is taught.
Football has a tremendous poten-tial
because it reflects the total
philosophy or objectives of the
college," said Lutton.
Lutton spent his undergraduate
days at Montana State and Pacific
Lutheran, where he was a running
back. He served as an assistant at
RMC for one year and then as
head coach for four seasons.
He plans to implement a new
system, using a multiple offense,
see page 8
Committee not to implement the
new grading system.
Former President Steve Hoswell
sent Jessup a memo concerning
the meeting yet Jessup says he
knows of no "official" action
taken by the senate. The faculty
vote advocating the plus/minus
grading method had overruled any
action of the Senate.
Dwight Jessup, director of aca-demic
affairs, calls it, "A grading
pattern with more distinction. It
allows a teacher to pinpoint more
accurately the achievement of a
student."
Jessup sees the new system
making it more difficult for stu-dents
to get a 4.0 average, and he
sees students exerting more pres-sure
on faculty for grade changes.
Philip Sackett, assoc. professor
in chemistry, led the drive for the
new system and sees the change as
a positive one. "It will cause the
transcript and GPA to reflect stu-dents'
achievements," said Sack-ett.
"Many of us (faculty) are torn
in giving people with high B work
and low B work, the same grade.
Students who usually work their
way up until they're just over the
borderline will be at a disadvan-tage.
The new system will "pre-vent
people from settling down
when they see they can't make the
next grade range...stop them from
coasting," said Sackett.
Faculty members will be re-lieved
from the pressure of know-ing
that an error of one grading
division will result in the error of
an entire grade point. The new
system reduces the maximum er-ror
in such a case to .4 grade
points.
As it stands now, the plus/min-us
system will definitely be used in
the fall. Students should evaluate
at that time and voice their opin-ions
regarding its continued use.
your transcript. Now for the bad The new system was approved
news: that "lucky" C will show by the faculty two years ago, but
Lutton accepts offer to coach Royals
Baccalaureate begins at 10:15
a.m. on Sunday, and commence-ment
begins at 3 p.m. Visitors are
welcome to attend baccalaureate
but admission to commencement
is by ticket only. grading system allows accuracy
letters
Happiness exists outside submission
Vol. 55 No. 24 Bethel College May 16, 1980
The Clarion is published weekly by the students of Bethel Col-lege.
Editorial opinions are the sole responsibility of the Clarion
staff. Letters are welcome, and must be signed and delivered to
P.O. 2381 by the Sunday before publication.
Paul Olsen, Editor
Suzi Wells, Associate Editor
Carol Madison, News & Sports Editor
Steve Erickson, News & Sports Editor
Joy Nannette Banta, Copy Editor
Shelly Nielsen, Art Gibbens , Production
Suanne Hawkins, Business Manager,
Jay Russell, Editorial Assistant, Carolyn Olson, Graphics
Doug Barkey, Photography Editor, Juan Ortiz, Cartoonist
Scott Barsuhn, Fine Arts
e Clarion
Page 2 editorial
For mistakes: 'sorry,
for input, help: 'thanks'
This is it.
At the beginning of the year we set out to provide the Bethel com-munity
with consistently high-quality journalism. Sometimes we suc-ceeded;
often we didn't. (Last week, for example, our front-page layout
left a lot to be desired. We regret the unfortunate sensationalism of
Doug Briggs' and Dave Anderson's work counseling homosexuals. The
placement of photos could have been better as well.) There have been
times we've been as disgusted as our readers with our work. We've also
had occassion to be pleased with our product.
To the people we have misrepresented, we apologize—it's one of the
hazards of the business. To the people who have helped us with criticism
and input, we thank you.
In the minds of some, we have been overly critical of Bethel. Others
believe we've never been more interesting than a bowl of warm milk.
But through it all the staff has strove with excellence as our goal and
with all our work to the glory of God.
Through this year the staff has avoided self-indulgence at all costs,
resisting temptation to photograph, caricature or print other pats on the
back. Now's the time to take the wraps off.
Credit for this year's Clarion goes especially to the senior editors: Suzi
Wells, who has been here forever and knows it all; Carol Madison, who
now knows enough about Bethel women's sports to become the new
athletic director; and Steve Erickson, who had fits of brilliance buried in
his volumes of copy over the years.
Next year's leaders Joy Banta and Jay Russell have been invaluable
jacks-of-all-Clarion-trades. Doug Barkey, Tom Twining and Dan Velie
have provided us with some of the best photographic work in small col-lege
newspapers. The paper has been able and quickly laid out by Shelly
Nielsen and Art Gibbens. And at the foundation are the writers. Too
numerous.
The year has been successful for us. We thank the Bethel ad-ministration
and other leaders for being as tolerant and helpful as they
have. After all, we don't hate Bethel; we only want it to be what she can
be. Legend has it that Dean Brushaber once said to President Lund-quist,
that Bethel is a good school on the verge of becoming a great
school. We agree, but the administration, the faculty, the staff, the
students, and especially the Clarion Should never be content, never stop
striving for a better Bethel.
Yes, I've rambled a bit, but allow me one more bit of self-indulgence:
Thank-you, Mari.
Memories at Bethel
found in 'swamp gal'
Editorials are the opinion of the entire Clarion staff, well, most of the
time that is. That's why we use "we" as I'm sure most of you have
caught on to or perhaps have known for decades.
Anyhow, the editor, or perhaps better said, the editorial staff has
allowed us seniors to use the precious editorial column space to say a
few words about our experience at Bethel.
My work on the Clarion has been the most educational experience of
my life, as well as the most frustrating and most rewarding. I've even
loved it so much that this is my third year on the editorial staff. I'd like
to take this space to thank all my Clarion colleagues who have put up
with my outbursts, whims, eating habits and singing. They've been great
friends, too. I'm not sure what I'll do next year without a Clarion office
to retreat to.
I've also enjoyed working in the Royal Oak Room with under-standing
cooks, humorous dishwashers and helpful waiters and wai-tresses.
That's been a four-year stint for me.
Bethel professors, administrators, staff and Pastor Jim have all been
great, too, and have taught me not only the value of a liberal arts educa-tion,
but the value of living in a Christian community.
All of my friends have been so special to me, but my roommates this
year have really put up with a lot. Sue Odmark, who has the reputation
of being the fourth roommate of mine to become engaged, has won-derfully
tolerated my early morning and obnoxious alarm clock (I get up
an hour after it goes off). Bobbie Dischinger has lived with me and loved
me (when no one else could) for three years now. And then there's Joy
Kammerling. Even though I never did a feature story on you Joy, I want
you to know that I love you. Lots.
It is with great sadness that I write these last words of mine ever to be
printed in a Clarion. I want to make them the best—for a good closing
to my portfolio of my Bethel years.
So with these words, I want to say one more thanks, even though I
may have rambled more than Paul (above). Thanks to the Lake Jo-hanna
fire department for saving me from the mire of the smelly swamp
last September. Because of you, I'll be remembered at Bethel—not as a
Clarion editor, or an SMPer, or as a "swell gal" or even a swell
Wells—but as the "swamp gal."
1dd
volved in slow and painful emo- "happiness points." I simply ask
tional deaths due to the destruc- my colleagues to be cautious in
tiveness of a hierarchical model of implying that their particular
relationships (my counseling case- hermeneutic is exclusively corre-load
always seems to increase after lated with mental health!
Bill Gothard comes to town).
My point in this letter is not to Dave Anderson
set up some type of scoreboard in Assistant Professor in Psychology
which to discover biblical truths May 9, 1980
Extra food cards offer
help for world hunger
Dear Friends,
Many of us at Bethel are con-cerned
about the problem of
world hunger, yet we find it diffi-cult
to do anything, especially
while in college. Here are a few
ideas I'd like to share:
1) If you have extra food cards,
sell them and give the money to a
hunger relief organization. In-form
your buyers where the mon-ey
is going—often they will pay
full price.
2) Use up extra food cards by
supporting our Haitian orphans
through Bowl of Rice. (You don't
have to eat the rice.)
It has been an exciting adven-ture
to visit the Thursday dining
room at Bethel.
Pleasant hosts, gracious peo-ple—
both male and female—who
wait upon your every need. This
combination of personnel united
with excellent food rates an A
plus.
Sorry we didn't find it sooner.
We will be looking forward to
another year.
Thank you,
Glen and Margaret Hayne
Dear Editor,
In last week's Clarion Dr. John
Piper offered what he felt to be
supportive evidence of his "male
leadership and female responsive-ness"
model of relationships. On
two occasions he seemed to imply
that "happiness" was connected
with spouses who followed this
hierarchical tradition in their mar-riages.
For example, he discusses
the "happy and mutually fulfill-ing
rhythm" of masculine author-ity
and feminine submission, and
he personally reflects on the "tre-mendous
happiness I enjoy now
with my wife and sons."
I would hope that readers
would not be left with the impres-sion
that happiness is only found
within this model. Just for the rec-ord,
I am "happy" to report that
my wife, Ms. Barbara Buchanan,
and I have "tremendously" en-joyed
our first year of marriage. It
has been the most fulfilling year
of both of our lives, and we most
certainly come from a total egali-tarian
and mutually-submissive
framework—we both take leader-ship
positions in our marriage.
One other observations: I have
witnessed many marriages in-
3) Go vegetarian or fast for a
few days a week to save food
money, then donate the money
saved.
Do you have any more ideas?
Please share them with our Bethel
community. The Lord Jesus cares
about hungry people, and we
should too.
In Christ,
Cheryl Bach
Oak Room
rates high,
earns A-plus
To the Clarion:
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`Matchmaker' content
lacks selectivity
Commitment necessary
for lifestyle to work
Dear Editor,
On April 25 I attended the play,
Matchmaker, given by the Bethel
College drama department in the
dinner theatre performance given
for the Bethel alumni. I am writ-ing
to express my disappointment
with the content of the play.
This is my opinion, but also ex-presses
the opinion of many of the
alumni who I discussed this matter
with, who were also at the play.
I do not feel that the portrayal
of drunkenness and profanity
have any place in a Christian
school. I agree that these are a
part of normal life. Drama is al-ways
selective in its portrayal of
life and selective to give a mes-sage.
I think the message that a Chris-
Dear editor,
The article by J. Johnson, en-titled
"Briggs, Anderson counsel
homosexuals," requires com-ment.
The simplistic analysis was
misleading on a number of issues;
I will focus on three of these.
1) Homosexuality/heterosex-uality
is not a dichotomy; that is,
a person is not necessarily in or
out of either category. The more
human sexuality is researched, the
more we are learning that our sex-uality
is located on a continuum
and is composed of many factors
and is expressed in many ways.
For example, is the homosexual
one who performs sexual acts with
another of like gender, or is it only
necessary that one desire to per-form
such acts? Could it be that
one who admires the body of in-dividuals
of similar gender is dis-playing
"latent homosexual ten-dencies"?
If so, this latter char-acterization
could include
"macho" weightlifters!
2) It is essential that one sepa-rate
sexual orientation from sex-ual
behavior. Let me illustrate by
presenting a question with which I
often confront my classes. "When
in your life did you make a willful
decision to obey God and become
a heterosexual?"
Obviously, there was no such
point in your development. Your
sexual orientation developed
through years of complex sociali-zation
pressures. Why then do you
accuse individuals with homosex-ual
orientations of making a will-ful
decision to disobey God?
They, too, are results of many fac-tors
over which they had not con-trol.
Many, in fact, are greatly dis-mayed
when they come to realize
their sexual preference. Homosex-uality
describes a sexual prefer-ence
which is an outcome of devel-opment;
such a preference does
not require that sexual behavior
follow.
tian community has to give to the
world is one of joy and peace, and
that it is deeper and more long
lasting than that provided by
"pudding."
Therefore, Bethel College has a
special message to proclaim, and
when it proclaims that message,
whether it be in drama, music, or
prose, it does it better than most
other institutions. But when it at-tempts
to compete with the world
on its terms, it is a loser.
I can understand the students'
fascination with the "pudding" of
this life, but having tasted "pud-ding"
and also the "meat and
bread" of God's word, I find the
latter more satisfying.
Yours in Christ,
Richard J. Ivance, Prisident
College Alumni Association
3) The article stated that Ander-son
and Briggs counsel individuals
struggling with homosexuality
"when they aren't working at
Bethel." This falsely implies that
people within the Bethel com-munity
are not affected by this is-sue.
Even within these hallowed,
academic hall, people are per-sonally
dealing with homosexuali-ty.
(By the way, I was surprised that
my close colleague, Professor
Dave Anderson, was quoted as the
authority for much of the article.
In discussing this with him, he
readily agreed that due to the ar-ticles
brevity, some mis-interpretations
occurred.)
Respectfully yours,
M. Roe
Department of Psychology
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Lifestyle: the watchword at Be-thel.
What exactly is it? Why is it
that way? What is the student's
part in enforcement? Steve
Lovestrand analyzes these ques-tions
in a four-part series.
by Steve Lovestrand
As I pointed out in my first arti-cle,
none of us keep the Bethel
lifestyle perfectly. Part of that, no
doubt, is due to our humanity.
But some of us violate it far more
than others. The question is, why?
Let's look at some attitudes.
The person most likely to violate
the lifestyle frequently is the one
who pays very little attention to
what it says, and, if he knows
what it says, couldn't care less
anyway.
Then there are those who consi-der
themselves just as without ob-ligation
to following the policy as
the first type, but nevertheless,
give it some consideration when
making lifestyle decisions, out of
"respect" or peer pressure or
something.
What about those who do (try
to) keep the lifestyle policy? What
are their reasons for doing so?
There are some who are simply
afraid of getting caught and fined
or thrown out. There are others
who, in much the same way, view
the school as the authority and
themselves as the subjects, and in
keeping that relationship, do what
they're "supposed to" do.
Some abide by the lifestyle be-cause
they "signed their life
away" and promised to keep it.
They feel under obligation, or
may just be worried that if they
violate it, their word won't be
worth anything anymore.
If we are consistently with our
understanding of the lifestyle
policy, we are showing some in-tegrity
and maturity. •
By far the biggest reason we
violate the community expecta-tions
is that we disagree with
them, and thus find it difficult to
act committed to them (assuming
this isn't the case for the Biblical
injunctions section), and that's
understandable.
But if we're going to display in-tegrity,
we should recognize that
it's time to leave the community
and free ourselves from our com-mitment,
we can stay here and be
committed. While we're here we
either accept the lifestyle the way
it is, or work to modify it.
For example, if I think it's okay
to dance, rather than say I won't
and then dance anyway, I should
either leave, or stay and shut up
and accept it. Better yet, I could
work to change the policy so it al-lows
dancing.
If we as a community do not
really disapprove of dancing or
drinking or gambling or smoking
or drugs or indiscriminate card
games and theatre attendance,
and yet pretend to disapprove of
them, the integrity of the com-munity's
behavior as a whole is
not in keeping with its policy.
If we as a community do disap-prove
strongly of the behavior
prohibited by the lifestyle, then we
should be just as strong in our
commitment to it.
Why, then, do Bethel people
violate the lifestyle? I don't think
it's so much because they have
good reason for violating it, as be-cause
they don't have good rea-sons
for keeping it.
If we are going to make lifestyle
compliance a positive experience,
we must take seriously the ration-ale,
the merit, and the process of
making and sticking to that com-mitment.
Only then can we apply
what we have learned when we
make commitments after we leave
Bethel.
Some of us had pretty much the
same, or an even stricter lifestyle
before we came to Bethel. For
those, the main reason for keeping
it is that they would have anyway,
whether or not Bethel asked them
to. On the other hand, some dis-agree
with the policy but figure
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they can put up with it for four
years since the school's worth it.
The way I look at it, these rea-sons
for keeping or not keeping
the lifestyle policy are weak. They
all see the policy as a set of rules
and restrictions placed on people
while they are here. But if the life-style
is to have a lasting effect we
must think of it as a more serious
and important matter.
Back to my question: Why
don't we keep the lifestyle? One of
my favorite quotes is, "What you
do is what you really want to do,
and vice versa." So if someone is
violating the lifestyle policy, it is
generally because she doesn't
want to abide by it badly enough.
We could say that, regardless of
what she says, she is not truly
committed to following it. If she
says she is committed, yet fails to
keep her commitment, then we
can say she lacks integrity.
Suppose for a moment you see a
couple kissing passionately. If
they are not on a stage or in front
of a camera, we can assume that
they are committed to each other
and to their relationship—if they
are people of integrity. On the
other hand, if we discover that
they are not at all committed to
each other, then we infer from
their behavior that their choice of
recreation indicates a serious lack
of integrity.
In the same way we can deduce
from a Bethel person's lifestyle
behavior just how committed to
the policy he really is, or how
much integrity he has or doesn't
have.
Several issues present them-selves
at this point. One is the
issue of commitment. We are all
supposedly committed to follow-ing
the Bethel lifestyle policy. Are
we really? I for one can't remem-ber
a time when I read the lifestyle
statement in full and signed my
name at the bottom of it after
careful deliberation. It just
doesn't happen that way.
Perhaps, in the interest of keep-ing
the form short, the application
form just has a one-sentence state-ment
of lifestyle affirmation at the
bottom, right before the signature
blank.
So it's very likely that if I'm not
as committed to the lifestyle as my
signature would seem to indicate,
it's because I didn't see that state-ment,
ignored it, or signed it be-fore
reading it. What guarantee is
there that for the next four or
more years we will remain com-mitted
to it? We are not required
to sign a lifestyle statement each
time we register.
Another big issue (you guessed
it) is, "What if we make a com-mitment,
and fail to follow
through on it?" Then are we liars,
hypocrites, irresponsible, imma-ture?
Do we lack integrity and
honor?
Yes, maybe. Or maybe it's just
that we interpret the "Commun-ity
Expectations" to be binding
only when we are with people who
are personally committed to those
expectations.
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confusing due to brevity
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by Mari Broman
The commencement committee
has selected Carolyn Olson, senior
studio art major, to paint the
backdrop for the graduation cere-mony.
Olson was one of several
chosen to submit designs for the
seven-flat scene.
Olson has painted several back-drops
for concerts and designed
posters and pamphlets for such
groups as the Christian Disciple-ship
Coalition, Student Mission-ary
Project, AWANA clubs and
the Hunger Conference held here
recently.
Last year she had charge of the
varsity showcase, located in the
hallway by the food and card
desk. This year she did the graph-ics
for the Clarion.
Olson also involves herself in
service areas not related to art.
Last year she was an RA in Arden
Village West. She has worked with
Bethel's blood drive for three
years, one year as a worker, and
two years as co-chairman.
She became an art major after
struggling for two years in pre-med.
Although she always drew as
a child in Duluth, she had planned
to go into physical therapy, but
she "always got nervous" before
tests in her classes. Yet, she add-ed,
"I made some of my best
friends in chem lab."
Besides feeling "comfortable"
in art classes, she saw that the art
professors were "really honest,"
and admired them for that.
"God's looking for people who
are not faking it," she stressed.
Olson hopes to go on to grad-uate
school in a year or so. This
summer, however, she plans to
continue waitressing at the LeBis-tro
Cafe in Rosedale shopping
center. She also applied to counsel
at a day camp for elementary
school children at the Martin Lu-
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`Lemon yellow' inspires trust
by Char Eklof
As I sit on this piano bench, paging through a red hymnal, my eyes fleetingly catch the first words of the
hymn, "Nearer, my God, to Thee." I read the words again, and I pause, convicted.
"Nearer, my God, to Thee; Nearer to Thee,
E'en though it be a cross that raiseth me..."
I stop here. I read the words a third time, closing my eyes in quiet but intense soul-searching.
Can I really say that? Can I truthfully and meaningfully say, "Lord, bring me nearer to Thee, even if You
must send difficulties and trials to do so?" What about the events of the past year? I rephrase the verse in my
mind, the implications causing a certain disconcerting pain:
"Nearer, my God, to Thee...even though it be a stalled car and a terminal car battery that raiseth me to a
deeper and more tangible trust in You..."
I can remember last January so well. I remember the constant, fervent hope that my car—tempermental as
it was and is—would in fact start this time. The prognosis of the car mechanics still rings in my ears: "It's a
bad battery, miss. You're best off with a new one..."
I am brought back to the reality of this hard wooden piano bench by the realization that God is behind all
things—even the dilemma of a dead car battery and an empty checkbook. Suddenly I am awed by the jolting
revelation that the Lord has taught me about Himself through my car...my old, undependable, do-as-it-pleases
"lemon yellow!"
Overcome with wonder, I vividly relive the day last November when I called home, my voice thickened
with tears: "Dad, they say I need a new oil filter in my car. It stalled and I missed several important ap-pointments
and I don't have much money..." And I also recall, experientially, the genuine peace that over-came
me as I brought my car before the Lord.
And now, as I hum the words: "Nearer, my God, to Thee," I find my heart overflowing with praise.
Hungrily, my soul begins to thrive on the manna from heaven, falling in the form of the still, small Voice:
"Char, Char, don't you see? I permit all these things to stretch your faith and increase your knowledge of
Me. Have I not proven faithful in providing for you?"
(Theologically, of course, the permissiveness of God presents no problems for me; I am a firm believer in
divine providence. It is only experientially that Romans 8:28 becomes a problem rather than a comfort. "All
things work together for good?" Theoretically, yes. In my daily life of term papers and stalled cars and
troubled people? Lord, lessen the gap between my intellectual theology and my existential faith!)
"Nearer, my God, to Thee"—I'm playing the piano now—"nearer to Thee..." I stop, planting my
fingers on the keys and listening to the pleasing harmony. Pausing before I proceed, I wonder, somewhat
painfully, if I can truthfully utter the next words.
Slowly but deliberately, then, I take a deep breath..."Even though it be a difficult, unpleasant encounter
with THE WORD...even, Lord, if it means many of such encounters"...(Amazingly, I find the words corn-ing
easier to me now; maybe You needed my stubborn will, Lord?)...I continue, half singing and half
whispering as I relive the experiences these words bring to mind: "EVEN if it means being involved in
phenomenally difficult situations with those in the world who don't know You..."
At first, I don't even notice the salty tears spilling gently on my hands.
My blurred eyes can no longer read the words in the hymnbook, but I
continue to make up my own. "Nearer, my God, to Thee, even though
it be ninety papers to grade and umpteen books to read with so many
other heavy things on my mind that raiseth me..."
I am crying softly now. A mixture of emotions floods my being as an
even newer revelation hits me. In this brief moment of eternity I realize,
to my utter amazement and no effort of my own, that I would rather ac-cept
the Lord's most difficult trial for me and know the fullness of His
Spirit...than to live a complacent life of frivolity and ease without truly
knowing Him.
Again, I remember. I remember the night this past year when, very ra-tionally
and undramatically, I simply said, "Lord, I really can't bear all
these problems. You've given me too much, Lord." Implicit in my
rather frank statement was the _indictment that God has erred in His
allotment of hardships and trials.
And now, as my heart sings, "Still my song shall be—nearer, my
God, to Thee," I catch a tiny but glorious glimpse of the nature of my
Lord, I am brought to a sudden realization: God has burdened me more
to pray for my lost loved ones and friends as a result of my often painful
involvement with them. I am completely humbled.
I wait a few lingering moments before I rise from the piano bench.
Slowly—but without dread—I walk to the door. Instinctively I am aware
that when I walk out of this practice room and out the door of Bethel
College, I am walking back into my complicated life of people, upset
schedules, and difficult and sometimes disrupting circumstances.
Yet I also know that I wouldn't want my life any different, if it is
through such a lifestyle that God chooses to reveal Himself to me. How
strange, and yet how true, that the once-impossible situations (my
"crosses to raise me") now seem bearable—no, glorious! How amazing,
and yet how wonderful, that such trials can be transformed with the
light of glory shed upon them!
I am now walking down the gym steps, passing the Bethel bus and
heading towards my precious—yes, precious — "lemon yellow," the re-cent
recipient of a brand new starter. Marveling at the perfect peace in-side
of me (which, I now know, will remain intact when the difficulties
come), I unlock my car door and get inside. I turn on the radio and then
turn it off again. Softly, quietly, meaningfully, I sing as I ride down
winding Bethel Drive, "Nearer my God, to Thee..."
Excess
food cards
still useful
by Patty Sutton
Many students are facing the
problem of what to do with the
many left-over food cards. Wayne
Erickson, co-director of the food
service, has offered some sugges-tions
to use up food cards.
The food service staff, given at
least a day's notice, can put toge-ther
a picnic lunch, make pastries,
bars, and party items such as spe-cial
order cakes.
Also some items like ice cream
and steak can be bought in quanti-ty,
but again, one should come in
advance of when the item is need-ed.
Because it is the end of the
year, quantity-buying of certain
items like flour and sugar, etc. will
be limited.
A co-op is possibly going to be
set up next year, however, Erick-son
said, "The problem is we
don't know where we can put it."
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Banta makes goal with editor's reins
by Suzi Wells
Editor and creator of her high
school newspaper in the Philip-pines,
T.A. for David Lee in the
speech-communication depart-ment,
an intern for Hospitality
House, and current copy editor of
the Clarion, Joy Banta will pick
up the reins as editor of the Clar-ion
next year.
Joy has written for the Clarion
for the past two years, serving last
year as editorial assistant second
semester. Joy has a love for writ-ing
and is looking forward to the
challenge and experience of being
Clarion editor next year.
Since her first encounter with
the Clarion, Joy has worked to-ward
the editor position. "It's
been my goal from the start," she
said. Her internship writing news
releases and as the publicity per-son
for Hospitality House this
year has helped with her writing
and public relations.
Originally a math major, Joy
changed to speech-communica-tions
with writing and theatre arts
cognates after her first calculus
class at Bethel. She feels her en-joyment
of math will help her in
budgeting and future editor re-sponsibilities.
Joy will be assisted by Jay Rus-sell
as associate editor next year.
Current photography editor Doug
Barkey and business manager
Suanne Hawkins will continue in
their roles next year. Other staff
members include Shari Goddard,
news editor; Ellie Abbott, sports
editor; Art Gibbens, production
editor; Sharon Waller, graphic ar-tist;
Patty Sutton, editorial assis-tant;
Mari Broman, copy editor;
Roger Smolik, columnist; and
Juan Ortiz will return as cartoon-ist.
"Most of these people have an
expressed interest in the Clarion,"
Joy said. "They're a great bunch
of people."
Bethel's boiler-watcher retires
Junior Joy Banta has finally achieved her goal, to be Clarion
editor.
His contact with them was more
involved when Bethel was still at
the old campus. Students rented
the room he and his wife Gene-vieve
had available in their Falcon
Heights home, and Peterman said
he very much enjoyed his involve-ment
with them.
Immediate plans are uncertain,
although Bethel has asked him to
return as a part-time worker next
fall. He isn't sure what he will do,
although he did concede that Be-thel
was "a possibility." He ex-pressed
a desire to help other peo-ple,
doing various jobs.
Peterman mentioned his grate-fulness
in having his twelve grand-children
in the area and the fact
that his wife Genevieve will also
retire in a year's time.
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Charles Peterman, Bethel carpenter,
of his career on vacation.
is spending this last month
Shelly
Nielsen
Journalistic integrity
forsaken for roommate
by Shelly Nielsen
-My aging roommate stands behind me, clutching a meat cleaver.
"What are you doing?" she asks tensely.
"Nothing. Writing a column."
I hear heavy, spasmodic breathing. She's leaning over my shoulder.
"Who's it about?"
"Who?" I query innocently. "What do you mean, 'who'?"
"You know! You know!" Her voice scales three octaves. She taps the
cleaver on the edge of the desk top. "All year it's been 'my roommate
this,' my roommate that.' It's about me, isn't it? Isn't it? You're
writing about my sleeping habits or my eating habits or my dirty bath-room
again, aren't you? Or are you telling the whole school how I pull
double-ply kleenexes apart to save money? I can't take it any more!
What have I done to deserve this? Why must I suffer like this?" She col-lapses,
weeping.
In memory of her formerly unquestionable emotion equilibrium, I
dedicate this final column, in part, to "my roommate"—who never
wanted her name in print...who consistently dreaded Fridays, despised
Clarions, and viciously threatened the columnist concerned. "My room-mate"
is, in fact, a fictional gorgon fabricated from the animated and
sarcastic personalities of past and present roommates: Linda Billberg,
Sharon (Ditto) Fleener, Barb Trostad, Sharon Trucker....I formally
deny the destructive rumors I may have encouraged by publishing anec-dotes
involving their personal and mental eccentricities. I lied. Repeat-edly.
My intentions were innocent, though. I never meant harm. I'm ac-tually
highly sensitive. My journalistic integrity, for instance, would
never permit me to discuss just what each of them wears to bed at night,
although this tidbit would make excessively interesting and readable
copy. I am acutely aware that an expose' of their barely believable
habits could have made them all societal freaks and outcasts forever.
The second clan to whom these paragraphs are dedicated occupy the
opposite end of the "eccentric" scale: people who answered the ques-tion,
"Have any ideas for my column this week?" concisely: "Some-thing
about me," — or in case they weren't asked, abandoned all pre-tense
of humility, and out of the blue blurted: "Put my name in your
column."
This, my forward friends, is for you. I disclose a partial list: Joy
Kammerling, the English TAs (you know who you are), Scott A. Bar-suhn,
Jane Kochka, Andy Leong, Suzi Wells, Debbie Olson, Mr. and
Mrs. Nielsen (Rod and Darlene to their friends, these charming folks
have two adorable, intelligent children, own a tasteful and probably ex-pensive
home in Beaverton, Oregon, and attend church with dizzingly
regularity), (In case you've forgotten, print your
name neatly in this blank. We in the Clarion office understand and
gossip kindly about people like you).
Mighty personalities energize and and inspire all writing. To you who
have been my caricatures, I'm grateful. You're Christmas in Aspen,
crickets by the hearth, crackers in my soup. You're bread and butter,
time in a bottle, tupperware and Mary Kay. I've used you. I thank you.
Signing off.
by Tim Wilbee
Charles Peterman, longstanding
member of the Bethel family, will
officially retire June 1. Peterman
has spent the duration of his 15
years as a carpenter in the physical
plant department, doing repair
work and taking care of the
boilers. Although he is still cur-rently
on the Bethel payroll, he is
spending this last month of his ca-reer
on vacation.
Prior to coming to Bethel, Pe-terman
was a farmer, but was
forced to leave the fields due to
failing health. Farming activities
led to respiratory problems so he
applied to Bethel for a job. as a
carpenter. He was drawn to the
school partly by the fact that his
four children—David, Edgar,
Joann, and Mary—all attended
here.
When asked if he missed farm-ing,
he said, "Yes, I miss farming,
especially in the spring when all
the life is coming out." He voiced
gratefulness for the fact that all of
his children were raised on the
farm.
His love for the soil was not
lessened by the lack of moisture
this spring. "The rain will come;
the rains always came. There were
always crops, even if they were a
bit skimpy."
But asked if he is glad he left the
plow for Bethel, he said simply,
"Yes, very much." He noted par-ticularly
the Christian fellowship
he has enjoyed here but voiced
with some regret that he did not
have more contact with the stu-dents.
He did have some, but
"Only to holler 'man on the floor'
when I go into the dorms to fix
some drapes or broken drawers."
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SMP reaches goal •
• 38 students travel world-wide Cheryl Bach and Mark Schweitz Republic, Phil Barker and Tim nesia. Kathi Erickson and Ruth Kent Johnson, Karen Larson,
will serve in Alaska, and Tammy Steele in Peru, and Brian Olm- Oliver will serve in the Philip- Lorelei Markson, Marcy Mattson,
Engel and Gayle Mahler will be in stead in Bolivia. pines, Igor Steeves in Taiwan, and Kevan Moulton, Kirsten Rendahl,
British Columbia. In Mexico will In Africa will be three students: Ramona Moore in Korea. and Tammy Schultz.
be Melanie Barker, Cindy Hipp, Mark Whittemore in Benin, Andy Japan is the most popular coun- Any students wishing to corres-
Rob Pietzman, Hanna Petros and Leong in Sudan, and Ginny Olson try this summer, with 11 students pond with SMPers this summer
Andrea Wichhart. Other students in Kenya. Brenda Kolsrud will be working there. They include: can find their addresses posted
serving in Latin America include in Germany, Kathy Bergstrom in Wanda Chambers, Becky Comer, outside the Campus Ministries of-
Shelby Paulson in the Dominican India, and Robb Childs in Indo- Jeanne Erickson, Bonnie Goding, fice.
Lissner discloses construction plans
This year's Student Missionary
Project (SMP) team is ready for
its summer service in the United
States and around the world. This
summer 38 students will be going
out, and the goal of 30 per cent of
each student's support has been
reached.
About $17,000 has been raised
this year through offerings, con-certs
and other fund raisers. Some
of the money raised will be used
for the SMP emergency fund, or
toward next year's SMP.
Students will be serving in 16
different countries, including the
United States. Those working
within the U.S. include Sue Stone,
who will be working with refugees
in Minneapolis, Kathy Holladay,
who will work with international
students in Colorado, and Tony
Anderson and Dan Hagen, who
will be working in urban Boston
and Philadelphia, respectively.
facilities, and more Bethel
Drive—also to the south.
It will take several years before
these projects are completed. The
first priority is the science addi-tion.
It will be necessary by the
fall of 1981 for the new nursing
program.
The fieldhouse and the auditor-ium
seem to be tied for second
priority right now since the build-ing
of either would reduce the de-mand
for our overloaded gym.
David Lissner, director of ,cam -
pus development, said that, "If
money came in for either one we
would start planning for its con-struction."
As far as dorms go, Lissner said
that Bethel has applied for a low
interest housing loan, but the
chances of getting it are quite
slim.
Lissner stated, "If we went to
the ordinary mortgage market to
get financing for new dorms, the
cost would be so high that student
rent would cover nothing but the
interest. No money would be left
to cover the principal, insurance
costs, heating and electricity,
maintenance, linen services, and
so on."
But what about Bethel Drive?
Although it received some atten-tion
last week, a major repair job
is slated for this summer. As al-ways,
the extent of this job is lim-ited
by a shortage of financial re-sources.
Because of the difficulty of get-ting
money for construction these
days, long range construction
plans other than the preceding
might better be viewed as extra-long
range plans to avoid raising
expectations.
(Lissner also made a statement
related to construction that the
Bethel community might be inter-ested
in knowing. The rumor that
has circulated at Bethel that the
townhouses are "temporary"
housing can be laid to rest. Lissner
said, "There was never any such
inclination," but he added that
there has been talk of face-lifting
the townhouses with some brick
work.)
Throughout the school year,
and probably ever since this cam-pus
came to be, students have
wondered where construction will
strike next. There are several addi-tions
to the present facilities in the
long-range plans: a science addi-tion
on the AC building, an audi-torium
and administrative build-ing
by the lake, a fieldhouse south
of the PE building, three new
dorms on the south side of cam-pus,
improved athletic fields and
Former student counsels
ministers to poor at VOC
ed. In food service, Georgine
Thorne, supervisor of student
workers, gives all returning stu-dents
the opportunity to come
back. Some will, and others de-cide
not to return.
This has been an unusual year
in food service, in that about 75
per cent of the student workers
have been freshmen. Usually
about 50 per cent are returning
students.
One of the main reasons for giv-ing
new students priority for on-campus
employment is that a job
gives a new student a sense of be-longing
somewhere on campus.
"It's very important for freshmen
to get involved in the
community," said Correll. She al-so
pointed out that few freshmen
have cars and are not often skilled
at applying at jobs, another rea-son
they are given priority for on-campus
employment.
However, returning students
are needed in some areas to train
new employees, and almost all
teacher's assistants (T.A.$) are
upperclassmen. "I think it's bal-anced
out," Correll said.
Paula Hegle
by Suzi Wells
Singing in front of 17,000 peo-ple,
working as a white counselor
in an all-black camp, ministering
to women in prison and painting
houses are all part of the ministry
that Paula Hegle, former Bethel
student, has at Voice Calvary
(VOC) in Jackson, Mississippi.
Last summer Paula had plan-ned
to work as a summer mission-ary
through Bethel's Student Mis-sionary
Project (SMP), but family
needs in Minnesota seemed more
important, so she had decided to
stay home.
"I was ready to go home and
work," she said. Then she heard a
message that Christian singer Ran-dy
Matthews gave at a concert
which made her think more about
missions. Matthews had said how
frightened we Christians can be of
jumping out in faith and leaving
old things behind.
After more thought, Paula sent
a late application to VOC. She
needed to raise her own support,
and wasn't sure where it would
come from. After writing letters,
half of the support she needed
came before she went to Europe
with the Bethel Women's Choir,
and when she returned, the other
half was waiting for her.
Paula started at VOC as a camp
counselor, working with different
age groups, and after the five-week
camp, she worked in Vaca-tion
Bible School. After this sum-mer
stint at VOC, Paula decided
to stay for another year. She had
planned to come back to Bethel to
cont. on p. 7
One job student employees have is working in the LRC.
New students given job edge
Any student employee who has
not been asked to return next year
may wonder why. But there's a
good reason, according to Joan
Correll, student employment and
loan coordinator in financial aid.
"Freshman are given priority,"
said Correll, when it comes to
placing students for jobs. Accord-ing
to the Bethel student-employer
handbook, the reason new stu-dents
take first priority for cam-pus
jobs is "based on the assump-tion
that continuing students are
better able to find off-campus em-ployment.
Our aim is to aid the
great number of students who
otherwise would be financially un-able
to attend school."
About 600 students are
employed on campus this year, ac-cording
to Correll, and of these,
about 60 per cent are returning
students, and 40 per cent are new
students. Correll feels this is a
good balance.
Some departments, such as
food service and the audio-visual
department, require some return-ing
students because new students
will not have the experience need-
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Senate Action
Senate debates yearbook revival
Many gospel teams
representing Bethel
Hegle, from p. 6
be an R.A., but she said, "I
jumped out on faith again." She
continues to raise her own sup-port,
and depends on God daily to
meet her needs.
"God hasn't let me down yet,"
she said. She has found that when
she gives money away, God bless-es
her the most. "There would al-ways
be money in my mailbox
when I gave it away," she said.
At VOC, Paula has worked
"one to one" with women in pri-sons,
and for the last six months
has helped renovate houses to sell
to poor people at a low cost.
Working in a prison was diffi-cult
for Paula at first, "When I
was so weak, I had to rely on
God's strength." Now going to
the prison is like visiting old
friends, she said.
Since Paula has been in Missis-
, sippi, she has had exposure to
many people from third-world
countries and has had contact
with many poor Blacks in Jack-son.
"This is changing my per-spective
on my lifestyle," she said.
We made it! The ultimate
weekend of the year has finally ar-rived.
We're excited! This very
weekend will be highlighted by a
"I'm a lot more aware of the in-justice
around me."
Although Paula had heard
many people talk about hunger
and poverty, she never had the un-derstanding
of what it was like un-til
now. "I sought the Lord and
His character, and that's when He
gave me new insight," she said. In
drawing closer to God, she said
she has become more empathetic
with the poor.
Paula's term at VOC ends in
August. After that, she's not sure
of her plans. "I'll probably be de-voting
my life to work among the
poor," she said. "I do a lot more
learning than helping. They (poor
people) have so much to teach me
and add to my life."
She feels that as God has been
faithful to her in the past, he will
remain so in her future. "God has
a plan for each one of us. If we
stop and listen, he'll reveal it,"
she said. I'll wait for God's timing
and let him shape and mold me."
Anyone interested in corre-sponding
with Paula can write to
her c/o VOC, 1635 St. Charles,
St. Jackson, Mississippi, 39209.
very special rollerskating party on
Friday night, along with the
"peak experience" of the All-
School Banquet on Saturday
evening!
• Of course, we can't forget the
perfect ending of a terrific year
for all of us—an enlightening
singspiration through which the
Spirit can fill us with sentiment
for our good memories and antici-pation
for this summer's activi-ties.
Our last rollerskating party will
be really special, so you won't
want to miss it. Come and find
out for yourself what will be so
"special!" Be there by midnight
and plan to stay until 2:00 a.m.
The buses will run as usual. The
cost will be $1.50. We hope to see
you there!
The All-School Banquet and
program will be held at school,
and they'll be better than ever. By
now, you should have made your
reservations with us if you were
planning on going. You MUST
have a reservation in order to at-tend.
If you haven't made a reserva-tion
yet, and you are insistent on
On Tuesday, in their last meet-ing
of the year, the Senate con-fronted
many issues. The meeting
last 21/2 hours as the Senators
labored to complete unfinished
business.
The highlight of the evening
was the recommendation to com-bine
the Passages magazine with a
yearbook. The Senate deliberated
extensively on this issue and de-cided
that the combination Pas-sages/
yearbook would best serve
the Bethel community. The editor
of this publication will be Sandy
Covert, who is now looking for
qualified people to serve on her
staff. Bethel's Student Senate is
excited about the future of this
publication on our campus.
The Student Directory will once
again be produced with the fol-lowing
improvements. The direc-tory
will be published early in the
fall, with the probability of incor-poration
into the Roster.
In support of Doc's Corner, the
Senate passed a $300 loan that will
allow Doc a working budget for
the beginning of the next school
year.
Due to Senate's lack of sup-port,
for various reasons, the
shuttle service to the airport will
not be provided this year.
Representing Senate's growing
concern for the adherence to the
lifestyle, a bill was passed pro-viding
for the re-signing of the
lifestyle statement at the registra-tion
confirmation in the fall and
spring of each year.
Money was designated to pay
for the completion of the research
on a Professor/Course Evaluation
Handbook completed by the Stu-going,
please stop by the C.C. of-fice
or call Bob or Mary Beth to
confirm a reservation by Friday
for sure!
The punch reception will begin
at 6 p.m. in the courtyard outside
of the coffeeshop. Those people
dining in the gym will be served at
6:30 p.m. Those dining in the cof-feeshop
or the cafeteria will be
served at 7 p.m. Everyone will
then congregate in the gym for a
memorable program beginning at
8:30 p.m.
This is a formal occasion where
the entire Bethel family gets toge-ther
to reflect over the year, so it
will be a real special evening.
For our last singspiration of the
year, we will meet in the gym at 8
p.m. to hear "Master's Touch"
sing and bless us through their
message. Again, we will take an
offering for SMP. We hope to see
many of you there!
P.S. We would like to sincerely
thank all of you for encouraging
us and attending our activities
throughout the year. We've had a
fantastic year, and you've made it
that way for us. We love each one
of you—we really do. Thanks for
everything.
Two members of the women's
basketball team will forego sum-mer
jobs to join a basketball team
associated with Athletes in Ac-tion,
which will travel throughout
Latin America.
Beth Karsjens and Joann Grif-fin,
both juniors and starters on
Bethel's basketball team, will join
a team of 12 women chosen from
applicants across the nation. Last
season they were the two leading
scorers and rebounders for Bethel.
As members of the 1980 Sports
Evangelism Women's basketball
team, they will play in countries
such as Venezuela, Puerto Rico,
Trinidad and other island nations
in the Caribbean.
The team will take on top-rank-ing
international teams, and the
Gospel will be presented at half-time
through testimonies, special
music and preaching by an evan-gelist.
New Testaments will be
given to opponents, and all at-tending
the game will be able to
"I'm really excited about this
opportunity," said Karsjens. "I
feel this is an excellent way to use
the athletic ability God has given
me to honor and witness for
Christ."
"This is an opportunity the
Lord has provided for me, and it
will be a chance for outreach by
sharing Christ through
basketball," explained Griffin.
"It will also be an exercise of my
faith, in that I have to believe that
God will supply the necessary
funds to go on this tour."
Both must raise $2,000 in sup-port,
and at this point, each has
raised approximately half of that
amount. The rest must be raised
before they leave for Mexico City
on June 18.
They will train together as a
team for four days, and will play
their first game on June 22 in
Mexico. The 21-day tour will end
in Miami, Florida July 8.
will travel across the country this summer,
and spreading God's word.
Banquet highlights year's activities
Page 8 sports
This year's Clarion Athletes of the Year are Rich Hodge, Joann
Griffin, and Paul Lindberg (Photo by Doug Barkey).
by Carol Madison
As a standout in basketball and
volleyball, Joann Griffin per-forms
as a gifted athlete should.
Not only does she lead her team-mates
on the court, but she also
serves as a spiritual leader through
the role of co-captain of each
sport. Her athletic and leadership
abilities have earned her the third
annual Clarion Athlete of the
Year Award.
When Joann graduated from
high school in Lincoln, Nebraska,
she left behind a string of accom-plishments
that may not be dupli-cated.
She competed in basketball
and track for three years, and
joined the volleyball team as a
senior. She captained the basket-ball
team her junior and senior
years, and was MVP in track her
final year.
Joann competed in the state
high school track meet, and plac-ed
fourth in the 80-yd. hurdles,
and the 440- and 880- relay teams.
She also served as vice president
of FCA and president of the wom-en's
_letter club.
Because of her humbleness and
modesty as an athlete, those high
school accomplishments were pro-bably
unknown to anyone outside
of Lincoln. But she has esta-blished
herself as an outstanding
athlete at Bethel, and her coaches
are more than willing to herald her
accomplishments.
"Joann is more than just an
athlete," said basketball coach
Marcia LaRock. "Her teammates
recognize and respect her as a lea-der.
She is a valuable player be-cause
of the effect her play has on
the team. How she played was
how the team played."
"Joann's maturity has impres-sed
me," said volleyball coach
Karyl Frye. "She has the ability to
come through as a leader even
though she's only a junior."
Both coaches also stressed their
appreciation for her spiritual lea-dership.
"I appreciate the spiritual uplift
I've gotten from her. She seems to
keep picking other people up des-pite
struggles of her own she
might have," said LaRock.
Since her freshman year, Joann
has started on the volleyball and
basketball teams. In volleyball this
season, she came within two votes
of being named all-stater. She had
a serving percentage .843, and a
hitting percentage of .914.
In basketball, she was second
leading rebounder and scorer, and
shot an impressive 44 percent
from the field. She was a defen-sive
leader with 45 blocked shots.
Joann chose Bethel because of a
desire to compete on a Christian
team with motives different than
those she saw in high school.
"In high school, we were win-ning
for our own glory," she said.
"We were accepted as winners by
the scoreboard only.
"But at Bethel, I play to glorify
God. He's given me abilities and
this is my way of saying thanks
and witnessing to others," Joann
added.
As a Phy Ed major, Joann is
looking into athletic training, and
may attend graduate school in Ne-braska
when she graduates next
year. She hopes to travel with a
Christian team as a trainer.
Joann's participation in sports
has been a big factor in developing
her attitudes about others.
I've put a lot of time into athle-tics,
and it has helped to establish
friendships," she said. "It is a
good outlet for me to care and get
to know people."
Her concern for others and her
ability.to perform as a quality ath-lete
explains why her teammates
have chosen to give her the re-sponsibilities
of leadership.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Pam Bickmore received
honorable mention as Clarion
Athlete of the Year for success-fully
completing four P.E. corn-ponents
in the last half of the final
semester of her senior year.
Up against the state's best corn-petition,
Bethel's track team con-cluded
its season by finishing fifth
in the MIAC conference meet last
weekend.
Although pleased with the
team's performance, Coach
Leighton Betz was hopeful of
placing higher in the field.
Hamline won the meet handily.
Leading in the 100-meter finals,
sophomore sprinter Paul Otto
pulled a muscle and struggled to a
fourth-place finish. He was
unable to participate in the 200
finals, although he had the top
qualifying time. Earlier he an-chored
the 440-yard relay team
and helped them to a first-place
finish.
Lutton, cont. from p. 1
complementing the Delaware wing
T with the option. The defense
will be a multiple 5-2.
Arriving with Lutton is Craig
Dahl, a perspective assistant
coach who also assisted at RMC.
He will attend the University of
Minnesota grad school and may
get involved with Bethel's hockey
program. After attending Albert
Lea High school, he played foot-ball
at Minnesota and Pacific
Lutheran, where he met Lutton.
Although Lutton's number one
objective right now is to build a
staff, recruiting must be done,
too. "I'm going to work through
FCA and churches and find the
best Christian athletes in the coun-try.
I'm sure there are lots of
young kids who want to go to a
school with a strong Christian
commitment and excellence in
other areas."
He disagrees with those who say
Bethel is not "big time." "Every
person that has anything to do
with Bethel—students, faculties,
janitors—should believe this is big
time. Big time is where you're at."
Other members of the relay
were Phil Asay, Andy Larson,
and Keith Johnson. Asay put on a
record setting performance in the
triple jump, out-distancing his
closest competitor, teammate
Greg Stipe, by nearly two feet. His
new school record now stands at
49' 1/2".
Sophomore Johnson also sailed
to a first place, winning the
400-meter hurdles in 53.92. He
then helped Brian Galloway, Don
Hauser, and Joel Rude finish fifth
in the mile relay.
Jason Velgersdyk jumped 6'4"
to place second in the high jump.
Competing in a number of events
besides the triple jump, Stipe fin-ished
third in the pole vault and
sixth in the long jump. Larson's
leap of 21'9" was good for fifth in
Divers
remain
unbeaten
The Wesaka University
Divers captured the cham-pionship
of the intramural
volleyball league with a con-vincing
15-8, 15-12 victory
over Sacrifice in the finals.
The Divers, consisting of
former men's volleyball
club members and others,
did not lose a single game
over the course of the sea-son.
Team members include
Loren Johnson, Mark
Johnson, Randy Johnson,
Mandy Fawley, Jane An-dressen,
Pam Freeman, Jo-
Ann Kormann, Tim Tra-vaille,
Tim Steele, and Tim
Tillman.
the long jump. He also just missed
placing in the 100, finishing sev-enth.
Bethel, a young team, should be
even better next season. The only
seniors competing in the con-ference
meet were Randy Bostrom
and Jim Feleen.
Final results of the MIAC meet
were: Hamline 178 1/3, St. John's
91, St. Olaf 87 1/3, St. Thomas
74, Bethel 69, Concordia 54 1/3,
Macalester 17, Gustavus 10,
Augsburg 6.
by Wendy Norberg
Sara Barker finished third in the
discus at the AIAW Region VI
Track and Field Championships
in Des Moines, Iowa last week-end,
and lead the women's track
team in a successful showing in
their final meet of the season.
Besides Barker the distance run-ning
duo of Ellie Abbott and
Wendy Norberg were the only
team members unhampered by in-juries.
Their performances show-ed
it as they both smashed school
and personal records in the 5,000
and 3,000-meter races.
Norberg placed sixth in the
5,000 with a time of 18:54.6 while
Abbott followed with a 19:04. The
next day Abbott finished the 3,000
with a 10:44 and Norberg fol-lowed
her with a 10:50.
Lynn Severson was expected to
place high in the 200-meter dash
but pulled a hamstring in the pre-lims
and was unable to compete in
the rest of her events. Conse-quently
some reshuffling had to
be done in order to fill her spots
on the two relay teams. Both relay
Two-sport starts, Rich Hodge
and Paul Lindberg, have been
named the recipients of the third
annual Clarion Athlete of the
Year Award.
With no clear frontrunner, the
decision was based on both per-sons'
quality participation in two
sports. Hodge played defensive
tackle for Chub Reynolds' grid-ders,
and wrestled. Lindberg
served as kicker on the football
team and played outfield for the
Royal baseball team.
Hodge, a senior from Minnea-polis,
lost only one match in each
of the last two years as heavy-weight
for the Royals. As a
junior, he captured to MIAC title
and was heavily favored to repeat
this season. But he was declared
ineligible and could not compete.
At times during the season, op-posing
coaches would not allow a
very weak or inexperienced heavy-weight
to wrestle Hodge, deciding
instead to forfeit the match.
Only a junior, Lindberg already
holds the Bethel and MIAC field
goal record, booting a 56-yarder
in a 1978 game against Concordia.
Lindberg, a hard worker, is well-known
in local baseball circles and
is feared by opposing pitchers.
Others considered for the Ath-lete
of the Year honor were Tom
Weko, who played both baseball
and basketball; Greg Stipe,
decathlete; and members of the
fine Royal basketball team.
teams managed to finish strongly
despite this last minute turn of
events.
The 4 x 100-meter relay took
fifth (52.2) as Teresa Meredith fill-ed
Severson's position alongside
regulars Jennifer Burgess, Sherri
Lindquist, and Deb Sension. The
800-meter medley relay captured
sixth with Sension filling in
(1:53.9).
In other events Burgess placed
fifth in the 100-meter hurdles with
a time of 16.39 and Lindquist had
a good time of 13.7 in the 100-me-ter
dash semi-finals.
Teresa Meredith also got her
best time of the year in the semi-finals
of the 400-meter dash with a
61.4.
At Regionals the team com-peted
against some of the best
runners in the country. Neverthe-less
Bethel has become a recog-nized
and respected track team be-cause
of the abilities of the mem-bers
of this year's squad.
The women are thankful for a
successful season and for the sup-port
of Bethel's student body.
Joann Griffin claims
top athlete honor
Hodge,
Lindberg
awarded
Young trackmen finish fifth
Abbott, Norberg smash
school distance records
Juans' (count them: 2) cartoons in retrospect
the Clarion. year end special
Seniors leave Bethel literary legacies
Infinite joy
I thank God for the oppor-tunity
to spend four years at Be-thel,
under the instruction of
Godly men and women, and in
fellowship with so many dear bro-thers
and sisters in Christ.
The most important thing I
have learned (and am still learn-ing)
is that Jesus offers infinite joy
to us (John 15:11, 16:24.) Since
this joy comes from trusting Him,
it removes all complaining and an-xiety
(Phil. 2:14, 4:6).
If we seek our joy in God and
delight in His word, He will put a
new song in our mouths, a song of
praise to our God (Psalm 40:3).
But if we seek our joy in anything
•• •
Cow pies.
After experiencing four years at
Bethel College and encountering
all kinds of people, we have found
that people are like cow pies: hard
on the outside, soft on the inside.
Take care and watch your step.
Steven Paul Hoswell
Carol J. Bowman
•••
Time flies
I've enjoyed my four years at
Bethel, but they've gone by much
too fast. If I could do it over, I
wouldn't take school (or grades)
so seriously. I'd take more time to
relax and enjoy people.
I appreciate all the profs who
took time to show their concern
for me. Bethel, I'm going to miss
you!
Eileen Jones
•••
Regrets
If I had my four years to do
over again, I would not have
strived so hard and sacrificed so
much for that 2.75. And let me go
on record by saying that I forgive
Shelly Nielsen for inadvertently
excluding me from her final col-umn.
We both know I was a
"constant source of inspiration"
to her.
Carol Madison
less than God, we will surely be
disappointed.
Joy finds its natural expression
in love, for joy longs to be shared
and is never complete until it has
been given to others.
Thank you to all who have
shared Christ's love and joy with
me. 0 magnify the LORD with
me, and let us exalt His name to-gether!
Shalom in the Lamb,
Rick Negley
•• •
Cover ups
Bethel is beautiful. I love the
place. Really. But it's not perfect,
and I panic each time evil is brush-ed
aside or censored here (in lit-erature,
drama, art, promotional
material . . . ). Ultra-sensitivity
about Bethel's "Christian" image
makes us cover up unpleasant
things (Passages "word" scandals
'79 and '80, "The Matchmaker,"
of all things?, suicide.) But it
doesn't protect us from anything
but an honest acceptance of our
own human deficiencies.
Potpourri
Yes, Virginia, Bethel was peo-ple.
Bethel was Dr. James E.
Johnson, Dr. "Doc" Dalton, (al-most)
Dr. G. W. Carlson, Dr.
Olaf Olsen, and historians who
ate breakfast together. Bethel was
toast, hashbrowns, cynicism, for-
•••
Gratitude
To Carolyn, Cindy, Janet,
Tammy and Val;
Thanks for the greates year and
fondest memories. I love you all!
Phil. 1:3,4
I fear a gradual sinking into
habitual "glossing over" that
won't permit us to speak of, think
of, or admit our weaknesses and
sins. To deny the existence of evil
is to deny a solution. We, of all
people, have nothing to fear.
Shelly Nielsen
eign affairs and 0. J. Bethel was a
mild attempt at integrating our
worst fears of the world around
us, with the profound faith that
sustained us.
Bethel was theatrical produc-tions.
Greasepaint, butterflies,
"Mr. Bill," and prayer. Bethel,
like it or not, was the "Method,"
and "enveloping" a role. Bethel
was theatre, and theatre was ram-pant
lunacy.
Bethel was Bible. Thank you
Bob and thank you Scott. Bible
studies will never be the same. Be-thel
was German scholars whose
names I never could pronounce.
Bethel was gripping with issues
that my "Living Bible" back-ground
could not handle. Bethel
was survival and an RSV.
Bethel was people. People who
hold together and show you who
you are and can be. Bethel was
writing what came naturally for
the Clarion. (Thank you Dave and
Paul.) And, yes, Bethel turned out
to be a living community that lov-ed
as well. I am grateful.
John van Vloton
•• • • • • • • • • • • •
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First Place by Chuck Clark
The First Clarion Photo Contest
Winners
$25 first prize - Chuck Clark, for outstanding
composition and lighting
$15 second prize - Karen Allen, for portrayal of
Bethel life
$10 third prize Emily Davis, for being corny,
but cute
These photos, along with other contest submissions and
staff photographs, comprise our nostalgic, soft-hearted,
incomplete look at the past year.
"The Crucible" by Steve Paulson
Honorable Mention by Kim Hansen
Honorable Mention by Emily Davis
Moods '80 by Tom Twining
Nursing program approaches
feasibility by Tom Twining
Honorable mention by Chuck
Clark
Bethel cheerleaders revived by Doug Barkey
Alda in Action by Chuck Clark
year
in photo's
"Stereotyping" by Karen Allen, Second Place
Powder Puffs by Emily Davis, Third Place
Winter scenery by Doug Barkey
Stu Soneson by Tom Twining
O Page 3a
The Rapture Ellie Abbott Heads-up soccer
Wrestling action
Ken Cooper
basketball attendance up
,*1 Track practice
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Dudley Lutton, Bethel's new head football mentor, sees foot-ball
as a "unifying force."
the Clarion. Vol. 55, No. 25 Bethel College St. Paul, MN May 16, 1980
Hatfield to address graduates
"And what does the Lord re-quire
of you? To act justly and to
love mercy and to walk humble
with your God." (Micah 6:8).
The above Scripture verse is the
theme for this year's commence-ment,
Sunday, May 25. Senator
Mark Hatfield from Oregon will
be addressing the 360 (Bachelor of
Arts and Associate of Arts) grad-uates
at commencement, while
Rev. Daniel Baumann, pastor of
the Whittier Area Baptist Fellow-ship
will speak at baccalaureate.
Senior Carolyn Olson has de-signed
a backdrop and cover for
the commencement program. The
Male Chorus will sing at baccal-aureate
and Dr. Paul Finlay, re-gistrar,
will give the benediction at
baccalaureate. Finlay will end his
22 years at Bethel next October.
Longer bank,
LRC hours
top survey
by Jan Johnson
"The Twin City Reader," li-brary
hours, shuttle services, and
admissions requirements were just
a few of the questions tackled by
the Student Senate in a recent stu-dent
survey.
About 600 students responded
by the questionnaire that the Sen-ate
put in P.O.'s to get student
reaction.
According to the results, most
people seemed concerned with
longer hours for both the banking
window and the library. Of the
600, 410 indicated the need for
longer banking hours on Friday,
and 392 indicated a need for long-er
library hours. Out of those,
over half said they would like to
see the library open later on Fri-days
and Saturdays.
The Senate included a question
asking what issues the students
would like to be confronted by the
Senate this year. The response was
over whelming. Four pages of dif-ferent
items to be considered.
Some of the main ones were the
lack of housing, the increase in
population, and the vagueness of
graduation requirements.
Of all the things covered in the
survey, the Senate is working on
several. Caryl Brown, the new stu-dent
body vice-president, said that
there are plans in the works for an
on campus food co-op next fall.
But as far as this year is con-cerned,
they are working on get-ting
longer library and banking
hours for finals week.
Brown also added that she
would like to thank the students
for participating.
Dr. Phil Sackett, associate pro-fessor
in chemistry and Dr. John
Lawyer, associate professor in po-litical
science will give the invoca-tion
and benediction at
commencement, respectively. Spe-cial
music will be by seniors Brian
Mulder and Carmen Holtzworth,
and Ann Eklof and Dawn Rum-sey.
Seniors who will be speaking at
baccalaureate and commencement
include Bobbie Dischinger, Ronn
Kreps, Cory Dahl and Tannie
Woods. Janet Peterson will read
Scripture, and Dan Carlson and
Steve Fischer will introduce speak-ers.
Joel Johnson will lead the
class in a responsive reading at the
end of the commencement cere-mony.
Plus-minus
by Susan Peterson
If you've ever "missed an A by
three points," or "barely made a
C," we've got some good news
and some bad news. First the good
news; next year, that missed A will
become an A- instead of a B on
by Steve Erickson
When Dud Lutton took over
the Rocky Mountain College foot-ball
team four years ago as the
youngest head coach in the coun-try,
the school was on the verge of
dropping the program. The team
had lost most of its games, playing
Those who have been involved
in planning the commencement
activities include Dr. Dwight Jess-up,
director of academic affairs,
Curt Fauth, alumni director in
public relations, and seniors Cory
Dahl, Steve Fischer, Steve Hos-well,
Greg Kaihoi, Debbi Olson,
Suzi Wells and Tannie Woods.
Juan Ramos is the director of the
Saturday night alumni program,
which follows the alumni dinner
to begin at 6 p.m. in the gymna-sium.
up as a C-.
Next fall, teachers will have the
option of tacking pluses onto B's,
C's and D's and minuses onto
A's, B's, and C's. A plus would
increase the number of grade
points by .3, and a minus would
decrease it by the same margin.
against schools who handed out
far more financial aid that it ever
could. But more than that, it was
a program that no one really cared
about.
Lutton, Bethel's new football
coach if his appointment is con-firmed
by the Board of Trustees,
its implementation is possible now
only because of Bethel's new data
processing system.
Jessup said he knew of no sig-nificant
opposition to the change
on the part of students, however.
on Dec. 4, 1979, the senate voted
by a narrow margin to oppose the
change and urge Jessup and the
members of the Academic Policy
stepped in and made football a big
part of Rocky Mountain. Al-though
the team never became a
big winner, Lutton defines success
in other ways, too.
"Too many coaches just look at
the scoreboard. They forget the
powerful influence the program
can have on people's lives. Foot-ball
should be a positive, unifying
force on the campus. Our primary
goal as a school to glorify God —
in football too," said Lutton.
The 28-year-old Lutton, in
town this week to get the program
here off the ground, was offered
the job the middle of last week.
Although scheduled to make his
decision by last Friday, Lutton
agonized over the weekend before
telling George Henry "yes" Mon-day.
"The thing that attracted me to
Bethel was the opportunity to be
involved at a Christ-centered
school. It is important that young
people have the opportunity to be
in a program where that is taught.
Football has a tremendous poten-tial
because it reflects the total
philosophy or objectives of the
college," said Lutton.
Lutton spent his undergraduate
days at Montana State and Pacific
Lutheran, where he was a running
back. He served as an assistant at
RMC for one year and then as
head coach for four seasons.
He plans to implement a new
system, using a multiple offense,
see page 8
Committee not to implement the
new grading system.
Former President Steve Hoswell
sent Jessup a memo concerning
the meeting yet Jessup says he
knows of no "official" action
taken by the senate. The faculty
vote advocating the plus/minus
grading method had overruled any
action of the Senate.
Dwight Jessup, director of aca-demic
affairs, calls it, "A grading
pattern with more distinction. It
allows a teacher to pinpoint more
accurately the achievement of a
student."
Jessup sees the new system
making it more difficult for stu-dents
to get a 4.0 average, and he
sees students exerting more pres-sure
on faculty for grade changes.
Philip Sackett, assoc. professor
in chemistry, led the drive for the
new system and sees the change as
a positive one. "It will cause the
transcript and GPA to reflect stu-dents'
achievements," said Sack-ett.
"Many of us (faculty) are torn
in giving people with high B work
and low B work, the same grade.
Students who usually work their
way up until they're just over the
borderline will be at a disadvan-tage.
The new system will "pre-vent
people from settling down
when they see they can't make the
next grade range...stop them from
coasting," said Sackett.
Faculty members will be re-lieved
from the pressure of know-ing
that an error of one grading
division will result in the error of
an entire grade point. The new
system reduces the maximum er-ror
in such a case to .4 grade
points.
As it stands now, the plus/min-us
system will definitely be used in
the fall. Students should evaluate
at that time and voice their opin-ions
regarding its continued use.
your transcript. Now for the bad The new system was approved
news: that "lucky" C will show by the faculty two years ago, but
Lutton accepts offer to coach Royals
Baccalaureate begins at 10:15
a.m. on Sunday, and commence-ment
begins at 3 p.m. Visitors are
welcome to attend baccalaureate
but admission to commencement
is by ticket only. grading system allows accuracy
letters
Happiness exists outside submission
Vol. 55 No. 24 Bethel College May 16, 1980
The Clarion is published weekly by the students of Bethel Col-lege.
Editorial opinions are the sole responsibility of the Clarion
staff. Letters are welcome, and must be signed and delivered to
P.O. 2381 by the Sunday before publication.
Paul Olsen, Editor
Suzi Wells, Associate Editor
Carol Madison, News & Sports Editor
Steve Erickson, News & Sports Editor
Joy Nannette Banta, Copy Editor
Shelly Nielsen, Art Gibbens , Production
Suanne Hawkins, Business Manager,
Jay Russell, Editorial Assistant, Carolyn Olson, Graphics
Doug Barkey, Photography Editor, Juan Ortiz, Cartoonist
Scott Barsuhn, Fine Arts
e Clarion
Page 2 editorial
For mistakes: 'sorry,
for input, help: 'thanks'
This is it.
At the beginning of the year we set out to provide the Bethel com-munity
with consistently high-quality journalism. Sometimes we suc-ceeded;
often we didn't. (Last week, for example, our front-page layout
left a lot to be desired. We regret the unfortunate sensationalism of
Doug Briggs' and Dave Anderson's work counseling homosexuals. The
placement of photos could have been better as well.) There have been
times we've been as disgusted as our readers with our work. We've also
had occassion to be pleased with our product.
To the people we have misrepresented, we apologize—it's one of the
hazards of the business. To the people who have helped us with criticism
and input, we thank you.
In the minds of some, we have been overly critical of Bethel. Others
believe we've never been more interesting than a bowl of warm milk.
But through it all the staff has strove with excellence as our goal and
with all our work to the glory of God.
Through this year the staff has avoided self-indulgence at all costs,
resisting temptation to photograph, caricature or print other pats on the
back. Now's the time to take the wraps off.
Credit for this year's Clarion goes especially to the senior editors: Suzi
Wells, who has been here forever and knows it all; Carol Madison, who
now knows enough about Bethel women's sports to become the new
athletic director; and Steve Erickson, who had fits of brilliance buried in
his volumes of copy over the years.
Next year's leaders Joy Banta and Jay Russell have been invaluable
jacks-of-all-Clarion-trades. Doug Barkey, Tom Twining and Dan Velie
have provided us with some of the best photographic work in small col-lege
newspapers. The paper has been able and quickly laid out by Shelly
Nielsen and Art Gibbens. And at the foundation are the writers. Too
numerous.
The year has been successful for us. We thank the Bethel ad-ministration
and other leaders for being as tolerant and helpful as they
have. After all, we don't hate Bethel; we only want it to be what she can
be. Legend has it that Dean Brushaber once said to President Lund-quist,
that Bethel is a good school on the verge of becoming a great
school. We agree, but the administration, the faculty, the staff, the
students, and especially the Clarion Should never be content, never stop
striving for a better Bethel.
Yes, I've rambled a bit, but allow me one more bit of self-indulgence:
Thank-you, Mari.
Memories at Bethel
found in 'swamp gal'
Editorials are the opinion of the entire Clarion staff, well, most of the
time that is. That's why we use "we" as I'm sure most of you have
caught on to or perhaps have known for decades.
Anyhow, the editor, or perhaps better said, the editorial staff has
allowed us seniors to use the precious editorial column space to say a
few words about our experience at Bethel.
My work on the Clarion has been the most educational experience of
my life, as well as the most frustrating and most rewarding. I've even
loved it so much that this is my third year on the editorial staff. I'd like
to take this space to thank all my Clarion colleagues who have put up
with my outbursts, whims, eating habits and singing. They've been great
friends, too. I'm not sure what I'll do next year without a Clarion office
to retreat to.
I've also enjoyed working in the Royal Oak Room with under-standing
cooks, humorous dishwashers and helpful waiters and wai-tresses.
That's been a four-year stint for me.
Bethel professors, administrators, staff and Pastor Jim have all been
great, too, and have taught me not only the value of a liberal arts educa-tion,
but the value of living in a Christian community.
All of my friends have been so special to me, but my roommates this
year have really put up with a lot. Sue Odmark, who has the reputation
of being the fourth roommate of mine to become engaged, has won-derfully
tolerated my early morning and obnoxious alarm clock (I get up
an hour after it goes off). Bobbie Dischinger has lived with me and loved
me (when no one else could) for three years now. And then there's Joy
Kammerling. Even though I never did a feature story on you Joy, I want
you to know that I love you. Lots.
It is with great sadness that I write these last words of mine ever to be
printed in a Clarion. I want to make them the best—for a good closing
to my portfolio of my Bethel years.
So with these words, I want to say one more thanks, even though I
may have rambled more than Paul (above). Thanks to the Lake Jo-hanna
fire department for saving me from the mire of the smelly swamp
last September. Because of you, I'll be remembered at Bethel—not as a
Clarion editor, or an SMPer, or as a "swell gal" or even a swell
Wells—but as the "swamp gal."
1dd
volved in slow and painful emo- "happiness points." I simply ask
tional deaths due to the destruc- my colleagues to be cautious in
tiveness of a hierarchical model of implying that their particular
relationships (my counseling case- hermeneutic is exclusively corre-load
always seems to increase after lated with mental health!
Bill Gothard comes to town).
My point in this letter is not to Dave Anderson
set up some type of scoreboard in Assistant Professor in Psychology
which to discover biblical truths May 9, 1980
Extra food cards offer
help for world hunger
Dear Friends,
Many of us at Bethel are con-cerned
about the problem of
world hunger, yet we find it diffi-cult
to do anything, especially
while in college. Here are a few
ideas I'd like to share:
1) If you have extra food cards,
sell them and give the money to a
hunger relief organization. In-form
your buyers where the mon-ey
is going—often they will pay
full price.
2) Use up extra food cards by
supporting our Haitian orphans
through Bowl of Rice. (You don't
have to eat the rice.)
It has been an exciting adven-ture
to visit the Thursday dining
room at Bethel.
Pleasant hosts, gracious peo-ple—
both male and female—who
wait upon your every need. This
combination of personnel united
with excellent food rates an A
plus.
Sorry we didn't find it sooner.
We will be looking forward to
another year.
Thank you,
Glen and Margaret Hayne
Dear Editor,
In last week's Clarion Dr. John
Piper offered what he felt to be
supportive evidence of his "male
leadership and female responsive-ness"
model of relationships. On
two occasions he seemed to imply
that "happiness" was connected
with spouses who followed this
hierarchical tradition in their mar-riages.
For example, he discusses
the "happy and mutually fulfill-ing
rhythm" of masculine author-ity
and feminine submission, and
he personally reflects on the "tre-mendous
happiness I enjoy now
with my wife and sons."
I would hope that readers
would not be left with the impres-sion
that happiness is only found
within this model. Just for the rec-ord,
I am "happy" to report that
my wife, Ms. Barbara Buchanan,
and I have "tremendously" en-joyed
our first year of marriage. It
has been the most fulfilling year
of both of our lives, and we most
certainly come from a total egali-tarian
and mutually-submissive
framework—we both take leader-ship
positions in our marriage.
One other observations: I have
witnessed many marriages in-
3) Go vegetarian or fast for a
few days a week to save food
money, then donate the money
saved.
Do you have any more ideas?
Please share them with our Bethel
community. The Lord Jesus cares
about hungry people, and we
should too.
In Christ,
Cheryl Bach
Oak Room
rates high,
earns A-plus
To the Clarion:
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letters
`Matchmaker' content
lacks selectivity
Commitment necessary
for lifestyle to work
Dear Editor,
On April 25 I attended the play,
Matchmaker, given by the Bethel
College drama department in the
dinner theatre performance given
for the Bethel alumni. I am writ-ing
to express my disappointment
with the content of the play.
This is my opinion, but also ex-presses
the opinion of many of the
alumni who I discussed this matter
with, who were also at the play.
I do not feel that the portrayal
of drunkenness and profanity
have any place in a Christian
school. I agree that these are a
part of normal life. Drama is al-ways
selective in its portrayal of
life and selective to give a mes-sage.
I think the message that a Chris-
Dear editor,
The article by J. Johnson, en-titled
"Briggs, Anderson counsel
homosexuals," requires com-ment.
The simplistic analysis was
misleading on a number of issues;
I will focus on three of these.
1) Homosexuality/heterosex-uality
is not a dichotomy; that is,
a person is not necessarily in or
out of either category. The more
human sexuality is researched, the
more we are learning that our sex-uality
is located on a continuum
and is composed of many factors
and is expressed in many ways.
For example, is the homosexual
one who performs sexual acts with
another of like gender, or is it only
necessary that one desire to per-form
such acts? Could it be that
one who admires the body of in-dividuals
of similar gender is dis-playing
"latent homosexual ten-dencies"?
If so, this latter char-acterization
could include
"macho" weightlifters!
2) It is essential that one sepa-rate
sexual orientation from sex-ual
behavior. Let me illustrate by
presenting a question with which I
often confront my classes. "When
in your life did you make a willful
decision to obey God and become
a heterosexual?"
Obviously, there was no such
point in your development. Your
sexual orientation developed
through years of complex sociali-zation
pressures. Why then do you
accuse individuals with homosex-ual
orientations of making a will-ful
decision to disobey God?
They, too, are results of many fac-tors
over which they had not con-trol.
Many, in fact, are greatly dis-mayed
when they come to realize
their sexual preference. Homosex-uality
describes a sexual prefer-ence
which is an outcome of devel-opment;
such a preference does
not require that sexual behavior
follow.
tian community has to give to the
world is one of joy and peace, and
that it is deeper and more long
lasting than that provided by
"pudding."
Therefore, Bethel College has a
special message to proclaim, and
when it proclaims that message,
whether it be in drama, music, or
prose, it does it better than most
other institutions. But when it at-tempts
to compete with the world
on its terms, it is a loser.
I can understand the students'
fascination with the "pudding" of
this life, but having tasted "pud-ding"
and also the "meat and
bread" of God's word, I find the
latter more satisfying.
Yours in Christ,
Richard J. Ivance, Prisident
College Alumni Association
3) The article stated that Ander-son
and Briggs counsel individuals
struggling with homosexuality
"when they aren't working at
Bethel." This falsely implies that
people within the Bethel com-munity
are not affected by this is-sue.
Even within these hallowed,
academic hall, people are per-sonally
dealing with homosexuali-ty.
(By the way, I was surprised that
my close colleague, Professor
Dave Anderson, was quoted as the
authority for much of the article.
In discussing this with him, he
readily agreed that due to the ar-ticles
brevity, some mis-interpretations
occurred.)
Respectfully yours,
M. Roe
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What exactly is it? Why is it
that way? What is the student's
part in enforcement? Steve
Lovestrand analyzes these ques-tions
in a four-part series.
by Steve Lovestrand
As I pointed out in my first arti-cle,
none of us keep the Bethel
lifestyle perfectly. Part of that, no
doubt, is due to our humanity.
But some of us violate it far more
than others. The question is, why?
Let's look at some attitudes.
The person most likely to violate
the lifestyle frequently is the one
who pays very little attention to
what it says, and, if he knows
what it says, couldn't care less
anyway.
Then there are those who consi-der
themselves just as without ob-ligation
to following the policy as
the first type, but nevertheless,
give it some consideration when
making lifestyle decisions, out of
"respect" or peer pressure or
something.
What about those who do (try
to) keep the lifestyle policy? What
are their reasons for doing so?
There are some who are simply
afraid of getting caught and fined
or thrown out. There are others
who, in much the same way, view
the school as the authority and
themselves as the subjects, and in
keeping that relationship, do what
they're "supposed to" do.
Some abide by the lifestyle be-cause
they "signed their life
away" and promised to keep it.
They feel under obligation, or
may just be worried that if they
violate it, their word won't be
worth anything anymore.
If we are consistently with our
understanding of the lifestyle
policy, we are showing some in-tegrity
and maturity. •
By far the biggest reason we
violate the community expecta-tions
is that we disagree with
them, and thus find it difficult to
act committed to them (assuming
this isn't the case for the Biblical
injunctions section), and that's
understandable.
But if we're going to display in-tegrity,
we should recognize that
it's time to leave the community
and free ourselves from our com-mitment,
we can stay here and be
committed. While we're here we
either accept the lifestyle the way
it is, or work to modify it.
For example, if I think it's okay
to dance, rather than say I won't
and then dance anyway, I should
either leave, or stay and shut up
and accept it. Better yet, I could
work to change the policy so it al-lows
dancing.
If we as a community do not
really disapprove of dancing or
drinking or gambling or smoking
or drugs or indiscriminate card
games and theatre attendance,
and yet pretend to disapprove of
them, the integrity of the com-munity's
behavior as a whole is
not in keeping with its policy.
If we as a community do disap-prove
strongly of the behavior
prohibited by the lifestyle, then we
should be just as strong in our
commitment to it.
Why, then, do Bethel people
violate the lifestyle? I don't think
it's so much because they have
good reason for violating it, as be-cause
they don't have good rea-sons
for keeping it.
If we are going to make lifestyle
compliance a positive experience,
we must take seriously the ration-ale,
the merit, and the process of
making and sticking to that com-mitment.
Only then can we apply
what we have learned when we
make commitments after we leave
Bethel.
Some of us had pretty much the
same, or an even stricter lifestyle
before we came to Bethel. For
those, the main reason for keeping
it is that they would have anyway,
whether or not Bethel asked them
to. On the other hand, some dis-agree
with the policy but figure
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years since the school's worth it.
The way I look at it, these rea-sons
for keeping or not keeping
the lifestyle policy are weak. They
all see the policy as a set of rules
and restrictions placed on people
while they are here. But if the life-style
is to have a lasting effect we
must think of it as a more serious
and important matter.
Back to my question: Why
don't we keep the lifestyle? One of
my favorite quotes is, "What you
do is what you really want to do,
and vice versa." So if someone is
violating the lifestyle policy, it is
generally because she doesn't
want to abide by it badly enough.
We could say that, regardless of
what she says, she is not truly
committed to following it. If she
says she is committed, yet fails to
keep her commitment, then we
can say she lacks integrity.
Suppose for a moment you see a
couple kissing passionately. If
they are not on a stage or in front
of a camera, we can assume that
they are committed to each other
and to their relationship—if they
are people of integrity. On the
other hand, if we discover that
they are not at all committed to
each other, then we infer from
their behavior that their choice of
recreation indicates a serious lack
of integrity.
In the same way we can deduce
from a Bethel person's lifestyle
behavior just how committed to
the policy he really is, or how
much integrity he has or doesn't
have.
Several issues present them-selves
at this point. One is the
issue of commitment. We are all
supposedly committed to follow-ing
the Bethel lifestyle policy. Are
we really? I for one can't remem-ber
a time when I read the lifestyle
statement in full and signed my
name at the bottom of it after
careful deliberation. It just
doesn't happen that way.
Perhaps, in the interest of keep-ing
the form short, the application
form just has a one-sentence state-ment
of lifestyle affirmation at the
bottom, right before the signature
blank.
So it's very likely that if I'm not
as committed to the lifestyle as my
signature would seem to indicate,
it's because I didn't see that state-ment,
ignored it, or signed it be-fore
reading it. What guarantee is
there that for the next four or
more years we will remain com-mitted
to it? We are not required
to sign a lifestyle statement each
time we register.
Another big issue (you guessed
it) is, "What if we make a com-mitment,
and fail to follow
through on it?" Then are we liars,
hypocrites, irresponsible, imma-ture?
Do we lack integrity and
honor?
Yes, maybe. Or maybe it's just
that we interpret the "Commun-ity
Expectations" to be binding
only when we are with people who
are personally committed to those
expectations.
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The commencement committee
has selected Carolyn Olson, senior
studio art major, to paint the
backdrop for the graduation cere-mony.
Olson was one of several
chosen to submit designs for the
seven-flat scene.
Olson has painted several back-drops
for concerts and designed
posters and pamphlets for such
groups as the Christian Disciple-ship
Coalition, Student Mission-ary
Project, AWANA clubs and
the Hunger Conference held here
recently.
Last year she had charge of the
varsity showcase, located in the
hallway by the food and card
desk. This year she did the graph-ics
for the Clarion.
Olson also involves herself in
service areas not related to art.
Last year she was an RA in Arden
Village West. She has worked with
Bethel's blood drive for three
years, one year as a worker, and
two years as co-chairman.
She became an art major after
struggling for two years in pre-med.
Although she always drew as
a child in Duluth, she had planned
to go into physical therapy, but
she "always got nervous" before
tests in her classes. Yet, she add-ed,
"I made some of my best
friends in chem lab."
Besides feeling "comfortable"
in art classes, she saw that the art
professors were "really honest,"
and admired them for that.
"God's looking for people who
are not faking it," she stressed.
Olson hopes to go on to grad-uate
school in a year or so. This
summer, however, she plans to
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`Lemon yellow' inspires trust
by Char Eklof
As I sit on this piano bench, paging through a red hymnal, my eyes fleetingly catch the first words of the
hymn, "Nearer, my God, to Thee." I read the words again, and I pause, convicted.
"Nearer, my God, to Thee; Nearer to Thee,
E'en though it be a cross that raiseth me..."
I stop here. I read the words a third time, closing my eyes in quiet but intense soul-searching.
Can I really say that? Can I truthfully and meaningfully say, "Lord, bring me nearer to Thee, even if You
must send difficulties and trials to do so?" What about the events of the past year? I rephrase the verse in my
mind, the implications causing a certain disconcerting pain:
"Nearer, my God, to Thee...even though it be a stalled car and a terminal car battery that raiseth me to a
deeper and more tangible trust in You..."
I can remember last January so well. I remember the constant, fervent hope that my car—tempermental as
it was and is—would in fact start this time. The prognosis of the car mechanics still rings in my ears: "It's a
bad battery, miss. You're best off with a new one..."
I am brought back to the reality of this hard wooden piano bench by the realization that God is behind all
things—even the dilemma of a dead car battery and an empty checkbook. Suddenly I am awed by the jolting
revelation that the Lord has taught me about Himself through my car...my old, undependable, do-as-it-pleases
"lemon yellow!"
Overcome with wonder, I vividly relive the day last November when I called home, my voice thickened
with tears: "Dad, they say I need a new oil filter in my car. It stalled and I missed several important ap-pointments
and I don't have much money..." And I also recall, experientially, the genuine peace that over-came
me as I brought my car before the Lord.
And now, as I hum the words: "Nearer, my God, to Thee," I find my heart overflowing with praise.
Hungrily, my soul begins to thrive on the manna from heaven, falling in the form of the still, small Voice:
"Char, Char, don't you see? I permit all these things to stretch your faith and increase your knowledge of
Me. Have I not proven faithful in providing for you?"
(Theologically, of course, the permissiveness of God presents no problems for me; I am a firm believer in
divine providence. It is only experientially that Romans 8:28 becomes a problem rather than a comfort. "All
things work together for good?" Theoretically, yes. In my daily life of term papers and stalled cars and
troubled people? Lord, lessen the gap between my intellectual theology and my existential faith!)
"Nearer, my God, to Thee"—I'm playing the piano now—"nearer to Thee..." I stop, planting my
fingers on the keys and listening to the pleasing harmony. Pausing before I proceed, I wonder, somewhat
painfully, if I can truthfully utter the next words.
Slowly but deliberately, then, I take a deep breath..."Even though it be a difficult, unpleasant encounter
with THE WORD...even, Lord, if it means many of such encounters"...(Amazingly, I find the words corn-ing
easier to me now; maybe You needed my stubborn will, Lord?)...I continue, half singing and half
whispering as I relive the experiences these words bring to mind: "EVEN if it means being involved in
phenomenally difficult situations with those in the world who don't know You..."
At first, I don't even notice the salty tears spilling gently on my hands.
My blurred eyes can no longer read the words in the hymnbook, but I
continue to make up my own. "Nearer, my God, to Thee, even though
it be ninety papers to grade and umpteen books to read with so many
other heavy things on my mind that raiseth me..."
I am crying softly now. A mixture of emotions floods my being as an
even newer revelation hits me. In this brief moment of eternity I realize,
to my utter amazement and no effort of my own, that I would rather ac-cept
the Lord's most difficult trial for me and know the fullness of His
Spirit...than to live a complacent life of frivolity and ease without truly
knowing Him.
Again, I remember. I remember the night this past year when, very ra-tionally
and undramatically, I simply said, "Lord, I really can't bear all
these problems. You've given me too much, Lord." Implicit in my
rather frank statement was the _indictment that God has erred in His
allotment of hardships and trials.
And now, as my heart sings, "Still my song shall be—nearer, my
God, to Thee," I catch a tiny but glorious glimpse of the nature of my
Lord, I am brought to a sudden realization: God has burdened me more
to pray for my lost loved ones and friends as a result of my often painful
involvement with them. I am completely humbled.
I wait a few lingering moments before I rise from the piano bench.
Slowly—but without dread—I walk to the door. Instinctively I am aware
that when I walk out of this practice room and out the door of Bethel
College, I am walking back into my complicated life of people, upset
schedules, and difficult and sometimes disrupting circumstances.
Yet I also know that I wouldn't want my life any different, if it is
through such a lifestyle that God chooses to reveal Himself to me. How
strange, and yet how true, that the once-impossible situations (my
"crosses to raise me") now seem bearable—no, glorious! How amazing,
and yet how wonderful, that such trials can be transformed with the
light of glory shed upon them!
I am now walking down the gym steps, passing the Bethel bus and
heading towards my precious—yes, precious — "lemon yellow," the re-cent
recipient of a brand new starter. Marveling at the perfect peace in-side
of me (which, I now know, will remain intact when the difficulties
come), I unlock my car door and get inside. I turn on the radio and then
turn it off again. Softly, quietly, meaningfully, I sing as I ride down
winding Bethel Drive, "Nearer my God, to Thee..."
Excess
food cards
still useful
by Patty Sutton
Many students are facing the
problem of what to do with the
many left-over food cards. Wayne
Erickson, co-director of the food
service, has offered some sugges-tions
to use up food cards.
The food service staff, given at
least a day's notice, can put toge-ther
a picnic lunch, make pastries,
bars, and party items such as spe-cial
order cakes.
Also some items like ice cream
and steak can be bought in quanti-ty,
but again, one should come in
advance of when the item is need-ed.
Because it is the end of the
year, quantity-buying of certain
items like flour and sugar, etc. will
be limited.
A co-op is possibly going to be
set up next year, however, Erick-son
said, "The problem is we
don't know where we can put it."
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Banta makes goal with editor's reins
by Suzi Wells
Editor and creator of her high
school newspaper in the Philip-pines,
T.A. for David Lee in the
speech-communication depart-ment,
an intern for Hospitality
House, and current copy editor of
the Clarion, Joy Banta will pick
up the reins as editor of the Clar-ion
next year.
Joy has written for the Clarion
for the past two years, serving last
year as editorial assistant second
semester. Joy has a love for writ-ing
and is looking forward to the
challenge and experience of being
Clarion editor next year.
Since her first encounter with
the Clarion, Joy has worked to-ward
the editor position. "It's
been my goal from the start," she
said. Her internship writing news
releases and as the publicity per-son
for Hospitality House this
year has helped with her writing
and public relations.
Originally a math major, Joy
changed to speech-communica-tions
with writing and theatre arts
cognates after her first calculus
class at Bethel. She feels her en-joyment
of math will help her in
budgeting and future editor re-sponsibilities.
Joy will be assisted by Jay Rus-sell
as associate editor next year.
Current photography editor Doug
Barkey and business manager
Suanne Hawkins will continue in
their roles next year. Other staff
members include Shari Goddard,
news editor; Ellie Abbott, sports
editor; Art Gibbens, production
editor; Sharon Waller, graphic ar-tist;
Patty Sutton, editorial assis-tant;
Mari Broman, copy editor;
Roger Smolik, columnist; and
Juan Ortiz will return as cartoon-ist.
"Most of these people have an
expressed interest in the Clarion,"
Joy said. "They're a great bunch
of people."
Bethel's boiler-watcher retires
Junior Joy Banta has finally achieved her goal, to be Clarion
editor.
His contact with them was more
involved when Bethel was still at
the old campus. Students rented
the room he and his wife Gene-vieve
had available in their Falcon
Heights home, and Peterman said
he very much enjoyed his involve-ment
with them.
Immediate plans are uncertain,
although Bethel has asked him to
return as a part-time worker next
fall. He isn't sure what he will do,
although he did concede that Be-thel
was "a possibility." He ex-pressed
a desire to help other peo-ple,
doing various jobs.
Peterman mentioned his grate-fulness
in having his twelve grand-children
in the area and the fact
that his wife Genevieve will also
retire in a year's time.
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Charles Peterman, Bethel carpenter,
of his career on vacation.
is spending this last month
Shelly
Nielsen
Journalistic integrity
forsaken for roommate
by Shelly Nielsen
-My aging roommate stands behind me, clutching a meat cleaver.
"What are you doing?" she asks tensely.
"Nothing. Writing a column."
I hear heavy, spasmodic breathing. She's leaning over my shoulder.
"Who's it about?"
"Who?" I query innocently. "What do you mean, 'who'?"
"You know! You know!" Her voice scales three octaves. She taps the
cleaver on the edge of the desk top. "All year it's been 'my roommate
this,' my roommate that.' It's about me, isn't it? Isn't it? You're
writing about my sleeping habits or my eating habits or my dirty bath-room
again, aren't you? Or are you telling the whole school how I pull
double-ply kleenexes apart to save money? I can't take it any more!
What have I done to deserve this? Why must I suffer like this?" She col-lapses,
weeping.
In memory of her formerly unquestionable emotion equilibrium, I
dedicate this final column, in part, to "my roommate"—who never
wanted her name in print...who consistently dreaded Fridays, despised
Clarions, and viciously threatened the columnist concerned. "My room-mate"
is, in fact, a fictional gorgon fabricated from the animated and
sarcastic personalities of past and present roommates: Linda Billberg,
Sharon (Ditto) Fleener, Barb Trostad, Sharon Trucker....I formally
deny the destructive rumors I may have encouraged by publishing anec-dotes
involving their personal and mental eccentricities. I lied. Repeat-edly.
My intentions were innocent, though. I never meant harm. I'm ac-tually
highly sensitive. My journalistic integrity, for instance, would
never permit me to discuss just what each of them wears to bed at night,
although this tidbit would make excessively interesting and readable
copy. I am acutely aware that an expose' of their barely believable
habits could have made them all societal freaks and outcasts forever.
The second clan to whom these paragraphs are dedicated occupy the
opposite end of the "eccentric" scale: people who answered the ques-tion,
"Have any ideas for my column this week?" concisely: "Some-thing
about me," — or in case they weren't asked, abandoned all pre-tense
of humility, and out of the blue blurted: "Put my name in your
column."
This, my forward friends, is for you. I disclose a partial list: Joy
Kammerling, the English TAs (you know who you are), Scott A. Bar-suhn,
Jane Kochka, Andy Leong, Suzi Wells, Debbie Olson, Mr. and
Mrs. Nielsen (Rod and Darlene to their friends, these charming folks
have two adorable, intelligent children, own a tasteful and probably ex-pensive
home in Beaverton, Oregon, and attend church with dizzingly
regularity), (In case you've forgotten, print your
name neatly in this blank. We in the Clarion office understand and
gossip kindly about people like you).
Mighty personalities energize and and inspire all writing. To you who
have been my caricatures, I'm grateful. You're Christmas in Aspen,
crickets by the hearth, crackers in my soup. You're bread and butter,
time in a bottle, tupperware and Mary Kay. I've used you. I thank you.
Signing off.
by Tim Wilbee
Charles Peterman, longstanding
member of the Bethel family, will
officially retire June 1. Peterman
has spent the duration of his 15
years as a carpenter in the physical
plant department, doing repair
work and taking care of the
boilers. Although he is still cur-rently
on the Bethel payroll, he is
spending this last month of his ca-reer
on vacation.
Prior to coming to Bethel, Pe-terman
was a farmer, but was
forced to leave the fields due to
failing health. Farming activities
led to respiratory problems so he
applied to Bethel for a job. as a
carpenter. He was drawn to the
school partly by the fact that his
four children—David, Edgar,
Joann, and Mary—all attended
here.
When asked if he missed farm-ing,
he said, "Yes, I miss farming,
especially in the spring when all
the life is coming out." He voiced
gratefulness for the fact that all of
his children were raised on the
farm.
His love for the soil was not
lessened by the lack of moisture
this spring. "The rain will come;
the rains always came. There were
always crops, even if they were a
bit skimpy."
But asked if he is glad he left the
plow for Bethel, he said simply,
"Yes, very much." He noted par-ticularly
the Christian fellowship
he has enjoyed here but voiced
with some regret that he did not
have more contact with the stu-dents.
He did have some, but
"Only to holler 'man on the floor'
when I go into the dorms to fix
some drapes or broken drawers."
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SMP reaches goal •
• 38 students travel world-wide Cheryl Bach and Mark Schweitz Republic, Phil Barker and Tim nesia. Kathi Erickson and Ruth Kent Johnson, Karen Larson,
will serve in Alaska, and Tammy Steele in Peru, and Brian Olm- Oliver will serve in the Philip- Lorelei Markson, Marcy Mattson,
Engel and Gayle Mahler will be in stead in Bolivia. pines, Igor Steeves in Taiwan, and Kevan Moulton, Kirsten Rendahl,
British Columbia. In Mexico will In Africa will be three students: Ramona Moore in Korea. and Tammy Schultz.
be Melanie Barker, Cindy Hipp, Mark Whittemore in Benin, Andy Japan is the most popular coun- Any students wishing to corres-
Rob Pietzman, Hanna Petros and Leong in Sudan, and Ginny Olson try this summer, with 11 students pond with SMPers this summer
Andrea Wichhart. Other students in Kenya. Brenda Kolsrud will be working there. They include: can find their addresses posted
serving in Latin America include in Germany, Kathy Bergstrom in Wanda Chambers, Becky Comer, outside the Campus Ministries of-
Shelby Paulson in the Dominican India, and Robb Childs in Indo- Jeanne Erickson, Bonnie Goding, fice.
Lissner discloses construction plans
This year's Student Missionary
Project (SMP) team is ready for
its summer service in the United
States and around the world. This
summer 38 students will be going
out, and the goal of 30 per cent of
each student's support has been
reached.
About $17,000 has been raised
this year through offerings, con-certs
and other fund raisers. Some
of the money raised will be used
for the SMP emergency fund, or
toward next year's SMP.
Students will be serving in 16
different countries, including the
United States. Those working
within the U.S. include Sue Stone,
who will be working with refugees
in Minneapolis, Kathy Holladay,
who will work with international
students in Colorado, and Tony
Anderson and Dan Hagen, who
will be working in urban Boston
and Philadelphia, respectively.
facilities, and more Bethel
Drive—also to the south.
It will take several years before
these projects are completed. The
first priority is the science addi-tion.
It will be necessary by the
fall of 1981 for the new nursing
program.
The fieldhouse and the auditor-ium
seem to be tied for second
priority right now since the build-ing
of either would reduce the de-mand
for our overloaded gym.
David Lissner, director of ,cam -
pus development, said that, "If
money came in for either one we
would start planning for its con-struction."
As far as dorms go, Lissner said
that Bethel has applied for a low
interest housing loan, but the
chances of getting it are quite
slim.
Lissner stated, "If we went to
the ordinary mortgage market to
get financing for new dorms, the
cost would be so high that student
rent would cover nothing but the
interest. No money would be left
to cover the principal, insurance
costs, heating and electricity,
maintenance, linen services, and
so on."
But what about Bethel Drive?
Although it received some atten-tion
last week, a major repair job
is slated for this summer. As al-ways,
the extent of this job is lim-ited
by a shortage of financial re-sources.
Because of the difficulty of get-ting
money for construction these
days, long range construction
plans other than the preceding
might better be viewed as extra-long
range plans to avoid raising
expectations.
(Lissner also made a statement
related to construction that the
Bethel community might be inter-ested
in knowing. The rumor that
has circulated at Bethel that the
townhouses are "temporary"
housing can be laid to rest. Lissner
said, "There was never any such
inclination," but he added that
there has been talk of face-lifting
the townhouses with some brick
work.)
Throughout the school year,
and probably ever since this cam-pus
came to be, students have
wondered where construction will
strike next. There are several addi-tions
to the present facilities in the
long-range plans: a science addi-tion
on the AC building, an audi-torium
and administrative build-ing
by the lake, a fieldhouse south
of the PE building, three new
dorms on the south side of cam-pus,
improved athletic fields and
Former student counsels
ministers to poor at VOC
ed. In food service, Georgine
Thorne, supervisor of student
workers, gives all returning stu-dents
the opportunity to come
back. Some will, and others de-cide
not to return.
This has been an unusual year
in food service, in that about 75
per cent of the student workers
have been freshmen. Usually
about 50 per cent are returning
students.
One of the main reasons for giv-ing
new students priority for on-campus
employment is that a job
gives a new student a sense of be-longing
somewhere on campus.
"It's very important for freshmen
to get involved in the
community," said Correll. She al-so
pointed out that few freshmen
have cars and are not often skilled
at applying at jobs, another rea-son
they are given priority for on-campus
employment.
However, returning students
are needed in some areas to train
new employees, and almost all
teacher's assistants (T.A.$) are
upperclassmen. "I think it's bal-anced
out," Correll said.
Paula Hegle
by Suzi Wells
Singing in front of 17,000 peo-ple,
working as a white counselor
in an all-black camp, ministering
to women in prison and painting
houses are all part of the ministry
that Paula Hegle, former Bethel
student, has at Voice Calvary
(VOC) in Jackson, Mississippi.
Last summer Paula had plan-ned
to work as a summer mission-ary
through Bethel's Student Mis-sionary
Project (SMP), but family
needs in Minnesota seemed more
important, so she had decided to
stay home.
"I was ready to go home and
work," she said. Then she heard a
message that Christian singer Ran-dy
Matthews gave at a concert
which made her think more about
missions. Matthews had said how
frightened we Christians can be of
jumping out in faith and leaving
old things behind.
After more thought, Paula sent
a late application to VOC. She
needed to raise her own support,
and wasn't sure where it would
come from. After writing letters,
half of the support she needed
came before she went to Europe
with the Bethel Women's Choir,
and when she returned, the other
half was waiting for her.
Paula started at VOC as a camp
counselor, working with different
age groups, and after the five-week
camp, she worked in Vaca-tion
Bible School. After this sum-mer
stint at VOC, Paula decided
to stay for another year. She had
planned to come back to Bethel to
cont. on p. 7
One job student employees have is working in the LRC.
New students given job edge
Any student employee who has
not been asked to return next year
may wonder why. But there's a
good reason, according to Joan
Correll, student employment and
loan coordinator in financial aid.
"Freshman are given priority,"
said Correll, when it comes to
placing students for jobs. Accord-ing
to the Bethel student-employer
handbook, the reason new stu-dents
take first priority for cam-pus
jobs is "based on the assump-tion
that continuing students are
better able to find off-campus em-ployment.
Our aim is to aid the
great number of students who
otherwise would be financially un-able
to attend school."
About 600 students are
employed on campus this year, ac-cording
to Correll, and of these,
about 60 per cent are returning
students, and 40 per cent are new
students. Correll feels this is a
good balance.
Some departments, such as
food service and the audio-visual
department, require some return-ing
students because new students
will not have the experience need-
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Senate Action
Senate debates yearbook revival
Many gospel teams
representing Bethel
Hegle, from p. 6
be an R.A., but she said, "I
jumped out on faith again." She
continues to raise her own sup-port,
and depends on God daily to
meet her needs.
"God hasn't let me down yet,"
she said. She has found that when
she gives money away, God bless-es
her the most. "There would al-ways
be money in my mailbox
when I gave it away," she said.
At VOC, Paula has worked
"one to one" with women in pri-sons,
and for the last six months
has helped renovate houses to sell
to poor people at a low cost.
Working in a prison was diffi-cult
for Paula at first, "When I
was so weak, I had to rely on
God's strength." Now going to
the prison is like visiting old
friends, she said.
Since Paula has been in Missis-
, sippi, she has had exposure to
many people from third-world
countries and has had contact
with many poor Blacks in Jack-son.
"This is changing my per-spective
on my lifestyle," she said.
We made it! The ultimate
weekend of the year has finally ar-rived.
We're excited! This very
weekend will be highlighted by a
"I'm a lot more aware of the in-justice
around me."
Although Paula had heard
many people talk about hunger
and poverty, she never had the un-derstanding
of what it was like un-til
now. "I sought the Lord and
His character, and that's when He
gave me new insight," she said. In
drawing closer to God, she said
she has become more empathetic
with the poor.
Paula's term at VOC ends in
August. After that, she's not sure
of her plans. "I'll probably be de-voting
my life to work among the
poor," she said. "I do a lot more
learning than helping. They (poor
people) have so much to teach me
and add to my life."
She feels that as God has been
faithful to her in the past, he will
remain so in her future. "God has
a plan for each one of us. If we
stop and listen, he'll reveal it,"
she said. I'll wait for God's timing
and let him shape and mold me."
Anyone interested in corre-sponding
with Paula can write to
her c/o VOC, 1635 St. Charles,
St. Jackson, Mississippi, 39209.
very special rollerskating party on
Friday night, along with the
"peak experience" of the All-
School Banquet on Saturday
evening!
• Of course, we can't forget the
perfect ending of a terrific year
for all of us—an enlightening
singspiration through which the
Spirit can fill us with sentiment
for our good memories and antici-pation
for this summer's activi-ties.
Our last rollerskating party will
be really special, so you won't
want to miss it. Come and find
out for yourself what will be so
"special!" Be there by midnight
and plan to stay until 2:00 a.m.
The buses will run as usual. The
cost will be $1.50. We hope to see
you there!
The All-School Banquet and
program will be held at school,
and they'll be better than ever. By
now, you should have made your
reservations with us if you were
planning on going. You MUST
have a reservation in order to at-tend.
If you haven't made a reserva-tion
yet, and you are insistent on
On Tuesday, in their last meet-ing
of the year, the Senate con-fronted
many issues. The meeting
last 21/2 hours as the Senators
labored to complete unfinished
business.
The highlight of the evening
was the recommendation to com-bine
the Passages magazine with a
yearbook. The Senate deliberated
extensively on this issue and de-cided
that the combination Pas-sages/
yearbook would best serve
the Bethel community. The editor
of this publication will be Sandy
Covert, who is now looking for
qualified people to serve on her
staff. Bethel's Student Senate is
excited about the future of this
publication on our campus.
The Student Directory will once
again be produced with the fol-lowing
improvements. The direc-tory
will be published early in the
fall, with the probability of incor-poration
into the Roster.
In support of Doc's Corner, the
Senate passed a $300 loan that will
allow Doc a working budget for
the beginning of the next school
year.
Due to Senate's lack of sup-port,
for various reasons, the
shuttle service to the airport will
not be provided this year.
Representing Senate's growing
concern for the adherence to the
lifestyle, a bill was passed pro-viding
for the re-signing of the
lifestyle statement at the registra-tion
confirmation in the fall and
spring of each year.
Money was designated to pay
for the completion of the research
on a Professor/Course Evaluation
Handbook completed by the Stu-going,
please stop by the C.C. of-fice
or call Bob or Mary Beth to
confirm a reservation by Friday
for sure!
The punch reception will begin
at 6 p.m. in the courtyard outside
of the coffeeshop. Those people
dining in the gym will be served at
6:30 p.m. Those dining in the cof-feeshop
or the cafeteria will be
served at 7 p.m. Everyone will
then congregate in the gym for a
memorable program beginning at
8:30 p.m.
This is a formal occasion where
the entire Bethel family gets toge-ther
to reflect over the year, so it
will be a real special evening.
For our last singspiration of the
year, we will meet in the gym at 8
p.m. to hear "Master's Touch"
sing and bless us through their
message. Again, we will take an
offering for SMP. We hope to see
many of you there!
P.S. We would like to sincerely
thank all of you for encouraging
us and attending our activities
throughout the year. We've had a
fantastic year, and you've made it
that way for us. We love each one
of you—we really do. Thanks for
everything.
Two members of the women's
basketball team will forego sum-mer
jobs to join a basketball team
associated with Athletes in Ac-tion,
which will travel throughout
Latin America.
Beth Karsjens and Joann Grif-fin,
both juniors and starters on
Bethel's basketball team, will join
a team of 12 women chosen from
applicants across the nation. Last
season they were the two leading
scorers and rebounders for Bethel.
As members of the 1980 Sports
Evangelism Women's basketball
team, they will play in countries
such as Venezuela, Puerto Rico,
Trinidad and other island nations
in the Caribbean.
The team will take on top-rank-ing
international teams, and the
Gospel will be presented at half-time
through testimonies, special
music and preaching by an evan-gelist.
New Testaments will be
given to opponents, and all at-tending
the game will be able to
"I'm really excited about this
opportunity," said Karsjens. "I
feel this is an excellent way to use
the athletic ability God has given
me to honor and witness for
Christ."
"This is an opportunity the
Lord has provided for me, and it
will be a chance for outreach by
sharing Christ through
basketball," explained Griffin.
"It will also be an exercise of my
faith, in that I have to believe that
God will supply the necessary
funds to go on this tour."
Both must raise $2,000 in sup-port,
and at this point, each has
raised approximately half of that
amount. The rest must be raised
before they leave for Mexico City
on June 18.
They will train together as a
team for four days, and will play
their first game on June 22 in
Mexico. The 21-day tour will end
in Miami, Florida July 8.
will travel across the country this summer,
and spreading God's word.
Banquet highlights year's activities
Page 8 sports
This year's Clarion Athletes of the Year are Rich Hodge, Joann
Griffin, and Paul Lindberg (Photo by Doug Barkey).
by Carol Madison
As a standout in basketball and
volleyball, Joann Griffin per-forms
as a gifted athlete should.
Not only does she lead her team-mates
on the court, but she also
serves as a spiritual leader through
the role of co-captain of each
sport. Her athletic and leadership
abilities have earned her the third
annual Clarion Athlete of the
Year Award.
When Joann graduated from
high school in Lincoln, Nebraska,
she left behind a string of accom-plishments
that may not be dupli-cated.
She competed in basketball
and track for three years, and
joined the volleyball team as a
senior. She captained the basket-ball
team her junior and senior
years, and was MVP in track her
final year.
Joann competed in the state
high school track meet, and plac-ed
fourth in the 80-yd. hurdles,
and the 440- and 880- relay teams.
She also served as vice president
of FCA and president of the wom-en's
_letter club.
Because of her humbleness and
modesty as an athlete, those high
school accomplishments were pro-bably
unknown to anyone outside
of Lincoln. But she has esta-blished
herself as an outstanding
athlete at Bethel, and her coaches
are more than willing to herald her
accomplishments.
"Joann is more than just an
athlete," said basketball coach
Marcia LaRock. "Her teammates
recognize and respect her as a lea-der.
She is a valuable player be-cause
of the effect her play has on
the team. How she played was
how the team played."
"Joann's maturity has impres-sed
me," said volleyball coach
Karyl Frye. "She has the ability to
come through as a leader even
though she's only a junior."
Both coaches also stressed their
appreciation for her spiritual lea-dership.
"I appreciate the spiritual uplift
I've gotten from her. She seems to
keep picking other people up des-pite
struggles of her own she
might have," said LaRock.
Since her freshman year, Joann
has started on the volleyball and
basketball teams. In volleyball this
season, she came within two votes
of being named all-stater. She had
a serving percentage .843, and a
hitting percentage of .914.
In basketball, she was second
leading rebounder and scorer, and
shot an impressive 44 percent
from the field. She was a defen-sive
leader with 45 blocked shots.
Joann chose Bethel because of a
desire to compete on a Christian
team with motives different than
those she saw in high school.
"In high school, we were win-ning
for our own glory," she said.
"We were accepted as winners by
the scoreboard only.
"But at Bethel, I play to glorify
God. He's given me abilities and
this is my way of saying thanks
and witnessing to others," Joann
added.
As a Phy Ed major, Joann is
looking into athletic training, and
may attend graduate school in Ne-braska
when she graduates next
year. She hopes to travel with a
Christian team as a trainer.
Joann's participation in sports
has been a big factor in developing
her attitudes about others.
I've put a lot of time into athle-tics,
and it has helped to establish
friendships," she said. "It is a
good outlet for me to care and get
to know people."
Her concern for others and her
ability.to perform as a quality ath-lete
explains why her teammates
have chosen to give her the re-sponsibilities
of leadership.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Pam Bickmore received
honorable mention as Clarion
Athlete of the Year for success-fully
completing four P.E. corn-ponents
in the last half of the final
semester of her senior year.
Up against the state's best corn-petition,
Bethel's track team con-cluded
its season by finishing fifth
in the MIAC conference meet last
weekend.
Although pleased with the
team's performance, Coach
Leighton Betz was hopeful of
placing higher in the field.
Hamline won the meet handily.
Leading in the 100-meter finals,
sophomore sprinter Paul Otto
pulled a muscle and struggled to a
fourth-place finish. He was
unable to participate in the 200
finals, although he had the top
qualifying time. Earlier he an-chored
the 440-yard relay team
and helped them to a first-place
finish.
Lutton, cont. from p. 1
complementing the Delaware wing
T with the option. The defense
will be a multiple 5-2.
Arriving with Lutton is Craig
Dahl, a perspective assistant
coach who also assisted at RMC.
He will attend the University of
Minnesota grad school and may
get involved with Bethel's hockey
program. After attending Albert
Lea High school, he played foot-ball
at Minnesota and Pacific
Lutheran, where he met Lutton.
Although Lutton's number one
objective right now is to build a
staff, recruiting must be done,
too. "I'm going to work through
FCA and churches and find the
best Christian athletes in the coun-try.
I'm sure there are lots of
young kids who want to go to a
school with a strong Christian
commitment and excellence in
other areas."
He disagrees with those who say
Bethel is not "big time." "Every
person that has anything to do
with Bethel—students, faculties,
janitors—should believe this is big
time. Big time is where you're at."
Other members of the relay
were Phil Asay, Andy Larson,
and Keith Johnson. Asay put on a
record setting performance in the
triple jump, out-distancing his
closest competitor, teammate
Greg Stipe, by nearly two feet. His
new school record now stands at
49' 1/2".
Sophomore Johnson also sailed
to a first place, winning the
400-meter hurdles in 53.92. He
then helped Brian Galloway, Don
Hauser, and Joel Rude finish fifth
in the mile relay.
Jason Velgersdyk jumped 6'4"
to place second in the high jump.
Competing in a number of events
besides the triple jump, Stipe fin-ished
third in the pole vault and
sixth in the long jump. Larson's
leap of 21'9" was good for fifth in
Divers
remain
unbeaten
The Wesaka University
Divers captured the cham-pionship
of the intramural
volleyball league with a con-vincing
15-8, 15-12 victory
over Sacrifice in the finals.
The Divers, consisting of
former men's volleyball
club members and others,
did not lose a single game
over the course of the sea-son.
Team members include
Loren Johnson, Mark
Johnson, Randy Johnson,
Mandy Fawley, Jane An-dressen,
Pam Freeman, Jo-
Ann Kormann, Tim Tra-vaille,
Tim Steele, and Tim
Tillman.
the long jump. He also just missed
placing in the 100, finishing sev-enth.
Bethel, a young team, should be
even better next season. The only
seniors competing in the con-ference
meet were Randy Bostrom
and Jim Feleen.
Final results of the MIAC meet
were: Hamline 178 1/3, St. John's
91, St. Olaf 87 1/3, St. Thomas
74, Bethel 69, Concordia 54 1/3,
Macalester 17, Gustavus 10,
Augsburg 6.
by Wendy Norberg
Sara Barker finished third in the
discus at the AIAW Region VI
Track and Field Championships
in Des Moines, Iowa last week-end,
and lead the women's track
team in a successful showing in
their final meet of the season.
Besides Barker the distance run-ning
duo of Ellie Abbott and
Wendy Norberg were the only
team members unhampered by in-juries.
Their performances show-ed
it as they both smashed school
and personal records in the 5,000
and 3,000-meter races.
Norberg placed sixth in the
5,000 with a time of 18:54.6 while
Abbott followed with a 19:04. The
next day Abbott finished the 3,000
with a 10:44 and Norberg fol-lowed
her with a 10:50.
Lynn Severson was expected to
place high in the 200-meter dash
but pulled a hamstring in the pre-lims
and was unable to compete in
the rest of her events. Conse-quently
some reshuffling had to
be done in order to fill her spots
on the two relay teams. Both relay
Two-sport starts, Rich Hodge
and Paul Lindberg, have been
named the recipients of the third
annual Clarion Athlete of the
Year Award.
With no clear frontrunner, the
decision was based on both per-sons'
quality participation in two
sports. Hodge played defensive
tackle for Chub Reynolds' grid-ders,
and wrestled. Lindberg
served as kicker on the football
team and played outfield for the
Royal baseball team.
Hodge, a senior from Minnea-polis,
lost only one match in each
of the last two years as heavy-weight
for the Royals. As a
junior, he captured to MIAC title
and was heavily favored to repeat
this season. But he was declared
ineligible and could not compete.
At times during the season, op-posing
coaches would not allow a
very weak or inexperienced heavy-weight
to wrestle Hodge, deciding
instead to forfeit the match.
Only a junior, Lindberg already
holds the Bethel and MIAC field
goal record, booting a 56-yarder
in a 1978 game against Concordia.
Lindberg, a hard worker, is well-known
in local baseball circles and
is feared by opposing pitchers.
Others considered for the Ath-lete
of the Year honor were Tom
Weko, who played both baseball
and basketball; Greg Stipe,
decathlete; and members of the
fine Royal basketball team.
teams managed to finish strongly
despite this last minute turn of
events.
The 4 x 100-meter relay took
fifth (52.2) as Teresa Meredith fill-ed
Severson's position alongside
regulars Jennifer Burgess, Sherri
Lindquist, and Deb Sension. The
800-meter medley relay captured
sixth with Sension filling in
(1:53.9).
In other events Burgess placed
fifth in the 100-meter hurdles with
a time of 16.39 and Lindquist had
a good time of 13.7 in the 100-me-ter
dash semi-finals.
Teresa Meredith also got her
best time of the year in the semi-finals
of the 400-meter dash with a
61.4.
At Regionals the team com-peted
against some of the best
runners in the country. Neverthe-less
Bethel has become a recog-nized
and respected track team be-cause
of the abilities of the mem-bers
of this year's squad.
The women are thankful for a
successful season and for the sup-port
of Bethel's student body.
Joann Griffin claims
top athlete honor
Hodge,
Lindberg
awarded
Young trackmen finish fifth
Abbott, Norberg smash
school distance records
Juans' (count them: 2) cartoons in retrospect
the Clarion. year end special
Seniors leave Bethel literary legacies
Infinite joy
I thank God for the oppor-tunity
to spend four years at Be-thel,
under the instruction of
Godly men and women, and in
fellowship with so many dear bro-thers
and sisters in Christ.
The most important thing I
have learned (and am still learn-ing)
is that Jesus offers infinite joy
to us (John 15:11, 16:24.) Since
this joy comes from trusting Him,
it removes all complaining and an-xiety
(Phil. 2:14, 4:6).
If we seek our joy in God and
delight in His word, He will put a
new song in our mouths, a song of
praise to our God (Psalm 40:3).
But if we seek our joy in anything
•• •
Cow pies.
After experiencing four years at
Bethel College and encountering
all kinds of people, we have found
that people are like cow pies: hard
on the outside, soft on the inside.
Take care and watch your step.
Steven Paul Hoswell
Carol J. Bowman
•••
Time flies
I've enjoyed my four years at
Bethel, but they've gone by much
too fast. If I could do it over, I
wouldn't take school (or grades)
so seriously. I'd take more time to
relax and enjoy people.
I appreciate all the profs who
took time to show their concern
for me. Bethel, I'm going to miss
you!
Eileen Jones
•••
Regrets
If I had my four years to do
over again, I would not have
strived so hard and sacrificed so
much for that 2.75. And let me go
on record by saying that I forgive
Shelly Nielsen for inadvertently
excluding me from her final col-umn.
We both know I was a
"constant source of inspiration"
to her.
Carol Madison
less than God, we will surely be
disappointed.
Joy finds its natural expression
in love, for joy longs to be shared
and is never complete until it has
been given to others.
Thank you to all who have
shared Christ's love and joy with
me. 0 magnify the LORD with
me, and let us exalt His name to-gether!
Shalom in the Lamb,
Rick Negley
•• •
Cover ups
Bethel is beautiful. I love the
place. Really. But it's not perfect,
and I panic each time evil is brush-ed
aside or censored here (in lit-erature,
drama, art, promotional
material . . . ). Ultra-sensitivity
about Bethel's "Christian" image
makes us cover up unpleasant
things (Passages "word" scandals
'79 and '80, "The Matchmaker,"
of all things?, suicide.) But it
doesn't protect us from anything
but an honest acceptance of our
own human deficiencies.
Potpourri
Yes, Virginia, Bethel was peo-ple.
Bethel was Dr. James E.
Johnson, Dr. "Doc" Dalton, (al-most)
Dr. G. W. Carlson, Dr.
Olaf Olsen, and historians who
ate breakfast together. Bethel was
toast, hashbrowns, cynicism, for-
•••
Gratitude
To Carolyn, Cindy, Janet,
Tammy and Val;
Thanks for the greates year and
fondest memories. I love you all!
Phil. 1:3,4
I fear a gradual sinking into
habitual "glossing over" that
won't permit us to speak of, think
of, or admit our weaknesses and
sins. To deny the existence of evil
is to deny a solution. We, of all
people, have nothing to fear.
Shelly Nielsen
eign affairs and 0. J. Bethel was a
mild attempt at integrating our
worst fears of the world around
us, with the profound faith that
sustained us.
Bethel was theatrical produc-tions.
Greasepaint, butterflies,
"Mr. Bill," and prayer. Bethel,
like it or not, was the "Method,"
and "enveloping" a role. Bethel
was theatre, and theatre was ram-pant
lunacy.
Bethel was Bible. Thank you
Bob and thank you Scott. Bible
studies will never be the same. Be-thel
was German scholars whose
names I never could pronounce.
Bethel was gripping with issues
that my "Living Bible" back-ground
could not handle. Bethel
was survival and an RSV.
Bethel was people. People who
hold together and show you who
you are and can be. Bethel was
writing what came naturally for
the Clarion. (Thank you Dave and
Paul.) And, yes, Bethel turned out
to be a living community that lov-ed
as well. I am grateful.
John van Vloton
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First Place by Chuck Clark
The First Clarion Photo Contest
Winners
$25 first prize - Chuck Clark, for outstanding
composition and lighting
$15 second prize - Karen Allen, for portrayal of
Bethel life
$10 third prize Emily Davis, for being corny,
but cute
These photos, along with other contest submissions and
staff photographs, comprise our nostalgic, soft-hearted,
incomplete look at the past year.
"The Crucible" by Steve Paulson
Honorable Mention by Kim Hansen
Honorable Mention by Emily Davis
Moods '80 by Tom Twining
Nursing program approaches
feasibility by Tom Twining
Honorable mention by Chuck
Clark
Bethel cheerleaders revived by Doug Barkey
Alda in Action by Chuck Clark
year
in photo's
"Stereotyping" by Karen Allen, Second Place
Powder Puffs by Emily Davis, Third Place
Winter scenery by Doug Barkey
Stu Soneson by Tom Twining
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The Rapture Ellie Abbott Heads-up soccer
Wrestling action
Ken Cooper
basketball attendance up
,*1 Track practice
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year in sports